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Outside the Anthropological Machine Crossing the Human-Animal Divide and Other Exit Strategies, Chiara Mengozzi ed., Routledge, 2020Book DescriptionIn the midst of the climate crisis and the threat of the sixth extinction, we can no longer claim to be the masters of nature. Rather, we need to unlearn our species’ arrogance for the sake of all animals, human and non-human. Rethinking our being-in-the-world as Homo sapiens, this monograph argues, starts precisely from the way we relate to our closer companion species. The authors gathered here endeavour to find multiple exit strategies from the anthropocentric paradigms that have bound the human and social sciences. Part I investigates the unexplored margins of human history by re-reading historical events, literary texts, and scientific findings from an animal’s perspective, rather than a human’s. Part II explores different forms of human-animal relationships, putting the emphasis on the institutions, spaces, and discourses that frame our interactions with animals. Part III engages with processes of "translation" that aim to render animals’ experience and perception into human words and visual language.Table of ContentsIntroductionWays Out of the Anthropological Machine, or How and Why to Defamiliarize OurselvesChiara MengozziPart I "Playing a Part in the Dramaturgy of the Real": (Hi)story on the Side of Animals1. A Giraffe’s Journey to France (1826–1827): Recording the Encounter From the Animal’s Point of ViewÉric Baratay2. Structures of Captivity and Animal Agency: The London Zoo, ca. 1865 to the Present TimesViolette Pouillard3. Atlantic History From the Saddle: The Role of Horses in the Slave-Trading Atlantic WorldRachael L. Pasierowska4. Re-animalizing Animals, Re-animating HumansMichał Krzykawski5. Laika’s Lullabies: Post-anthropocentric Representations of the First Dog in SpaceAnita Jarzyna6. The Blind Spot of the Plot: Thinking Beyond Human With Karel ČapekChiara MengozziPart II "I Relate, Therefore I Am": Human-Animal Encounters7. Animals and Their Keepers in Belle Époque Postcards of the Jardin des Plantes MenagerieMaria P. Gindhart8. "Seeing Eye to Eye, Through a Glass Clearly"? Blurring the Boundary Between Humans and AnimalsQuentin Montagne9. Flesh, Fur, and ForgettingKari Weil10. Animals as Monsters,Victims, and Models in the Age of DecadenceEva Voldřichová BeránkováPart III "Across the Narrow Abyss of Non-comprehension": Entering Animals’ Lives11. Literature and Animal Expressiveness: On the Cognitive and Ethic Aspects of ZoopoeticsAnne Simon12. "Une langue ou une musique inouïe, assez inhumaine…": Narrative Voice and the Question of the AnimalKári Driscoll13. From Being a Beast to Becoming-Animal: Literary Experiments in Crossing the Species DivideJonathan Pollock14. Cameras That Pose as Animals: Imagining Non-human Animals Through the POV ShotConcepción Cortés Zulueta15. Playing (With) the Non-human: The Animal Avatar in Bear SimulatorMichael FuchsEditorChiara Mengozzi is a researcher at Charles University in Prague (Faculty of Arts), where she teaches literary theory, as well as Italian and French contemporary literatures. She is also Associated Researcher at CEFRES in Prague (French Research Center in Social Sciences). Her research focuses on animal studies, ecocriticism, climate fiction, postcolonial and migrant literatures, world literature, and translation and reception theory. She is the author of an Italian monograph entitled Narrazioni contese. Vent’anni di scritture italiane della migrazione (2013). She is currently investigating the relation between science and literature in the context of climate change.URL de référence