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The Novel and the Multispecies Soundscape

by Ben De Bruyn

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 14.9 x 21.1 x 2 cm

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The contemporary novel is not as silent as we tend to believe, nor does it only attend to human plots and characters. As this book shows, writers in a range of subgenres have devoted considerable attention to the voices of nonhuman animals, and to the histories and technologies of listening that shape twenty-first-century cultures and environments. In doing so, their multispecies novels illuminate the cultural meanings we attach to creatures like dogs, frogs, whales, chimpanzees, and Tasmanian tigers - not to mention various bird species and even plants. At the same time, these stories explore the attitudes of distinct communities of human listeners, ranging from vets and musicians to chimp caretakers and sonar technicians. In highlighting animal sounds and their cultural meanings, these novels by authors including Amitav Ghosh, Julia Leigh, Richard Powers, Karen Joy Fowler, Cormac McCarthy, and Han Kang also enrich pressing debates about species extinction, sound pollution, nonhuman communication, and human-animal relations. As we are violently reshaping the planet, they invite us to reimagine our own humanity and animality - and to rethink how we tell stories about multispecies contact zones and their complex soundscapes.
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  • Author

    Ben De Bruyn

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Palgrave MacMillan

  • Published

    May 2020

  • Weight

    527g

  • Dimensions

    14.9 x 21.1 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9783030301217

  • ISBN-10

    3030301214

  • Eden Code

    5088335

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