Same/Not Same: Nonhuman Animals, Language, and Science in Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. (English)

The article discusses Karen Joy Fowler's 2013 novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, primarily in the context of the growing demands for nonhuman animal rights/liberation. The general thrust of the novel is in keeping with animal rights activism and the animal studies' critical examination of the human/animal relations.. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Članek obravnava roman Karen Joy Fowler We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013) v kontekstu vse glasnejših zahtev po pravicah oziroma osvoboditvi ne--človeških živali (nonhuman animals). Splošna poanta romana se sklada s težnjami aktivizma za pravice živali in kritičnega preiskovanja odnosov med človeškim in živalskim v živalskih študijah. Za razliko od brezkompromisnih živalskih liberacionistov, kot so Gary L. Francione, Tom Regan in Steve Best, Fowlerjeva razvija bolj zapleteno moralno perspektivo zlasti na področju znanstvenih/medicinskih raziskav na živalih, ki jo bolj približa Donni Haraway in Petru Singerju. Čeprav avtorica nikakor ne zanika strahot industrijskega kmetovanja ali biomedicinskih eksperimentov z živalmi, njen roman obenem ostaja tako antropocentričen kot humanističen. V nasprotju s tem, kar ima hitro rastoče polje živalskih študij povedati na temo antropocentrizma in humanizma, v romanu We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves to nista nujno slabi besedi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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