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041			_aeng
080			_a304 _bROY
100			_aRoy, Anuradha
245			_aRethinking Human-Animal Relationship Reading _b: Reading Stories from Bengali Literature
260			_bPrimus Books _c2023 _aDelhi
300			_axvii, 213p.
490			_aReconnecting with Nature: New Histories
504			_aIncludes Bibliography (196-206) and Index
520			_a Rethinking Human–Animal Relationship engages with animal studies, a growing interdisciplinary field that reveals the deep human unreason and moral schizophrenia regarding their animal ‘others’. This book focuses on the links of the unrelenting exploitation of animals throughout history to the domination of humans over other humans: women, lower classes, colonized people and other marginalized categories that are more or less animalized by oppressors. Facilitated by scientific insights into physical and emotional continuity between humans and non-humans as well as by the opening up of a theoretical space by postmodernism, postcolonialism, feminism and other such critical modes of discourse, animal studies emphasizes the human failure to look beyond themselves due to cultural blinders. It emerges in the exploration of shifts in thought in this book that ultimately, this leads to a posthumanistic view, asserting that rather than championing the rights of certain select subjects from a safe ontological distance, one should, fundamentally question the very human schema of knowing them. This book also analyses stories from modern Bengali literature through the lens of animal studies. The writers depict deep bonds between humans and animals and, through their empathetic insights and sympathetic imagination, show us that a soulmate-like relationship can be achieved. even in the face of opposition. This volume on human-animal relationship focuses on one of the environmental issues covered by the ‘Reconnecting with Nature’ series—flora, fauna, river systems and urban ecology.
650			_aAnimal Welfare -- Human-Animal Relationships
650			_aAnimal Studies
690			_aGeneral
942			_cBK
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