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Approaches to Animal in Literature and CultureCFP for an edited volume of collected critical essays. Essays are invited from academics, scholars, research aspirants and animal advocates.The rise and expansion of Animal Studies over the past decades can be seen in the explosion of various articles, journals, books, conferences, organisations, courses all over the academic world. With the publication of Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation in 1975 and Tom Regan’s The Case for Animal Rights in 1983, there has been a burgeoning interest in nonhuman animals among academics, animal advocates, and the general public. Interested scholars recognise the lack of scholarly attention given to nonhuman animals and to the relationships between human and nonhuman, especially in the light of the pervasiveness of animal representations, symbols, and stories, as well as the actual presence of animals in human societies and cultures.Animals abound in literary and cultural texts, either they are animals-as-constructed or animals-as-such. However, we can approach any literary text from a theoretical lens where the representation of nonhuman animals is the main operative analytic frame. In literature nonhuman animals are given the titular role, they carry symbolic function, they speak human language and so on. But these create problematics and bear the politics of representation.Proposals for articles on topics relevant to this collective volume may include, but are not limited to:Theoretical Background HAS or CAS or Anthrozoology• Animality Studies• Animal Studies and Ecocriticism• Animal ethics and rights• Darwinism  and Animal Ontology• Posthumanism• Womanimalia• Animal alterity• Animal and theology• Postcolonial Animal• Domesticated animal• Meat eating, fishing and farmingTextual ReadingsContributors have the liberty to choose literary and cultural texts for their case study, but the papers must theorise the significant presence of nonhuman animals in the selected texts. Photo-essays are also welcome.Papers should be within 3000-5000 words following the latest MLA style sheet and must have abstract of 250 words with keywords. The papers should accompany relevant endnotes, references and authors’ bio-note. All kinds of suggestions and comments are welcome for the improvement of the quality of the volume.Submission deadline: 31st October 2018Submit to the editor Krishanu Maiti here: studiesanimal@gmail.com&#160;Source : https://bsuenvhums.blog/2018/08/01/cfp-for-an-edited-volume-of-collected-critical-essays-approaches-to-animal-in-literature-and-culture/