03136oam 22005415 450 991056823860332120231121165445.09783030989156(electronic bk.)978303098914910.1007/978-3-030-98915-6(MiAaPQ)EBC6977331(Au-PeEL)EBL6977331(CKB)22046194300041(DE-He213)978-3-030-98915-6(EXLCZ)992204619430004120220506d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierReading slaughter abattoir fictions, space, and empathy in late modernity /Sune Borkfelt1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2022.1 online resource (284 pages)Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature,2634-6346Print version: Borkfelt, Sune Reading Slaughter Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030989149 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction: Fleshing Out Invisibilities -- 2. Literary Narratives and the Empathics of Slaughter -- 3. Anthropomorphism and the Abattoir -- 4. Flesh of the City: Slaughterhouses and the Urban -- 5. Ruralities and the Abattoir -- 6. Who Slaughters and Who Consumes? On Butcher(ing) Identities -- 7. Dark Spaces: The Horrific Slaughterhouse -- 8. Coda.Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today. The book focuses on how increasing and ongoing isolation and concealment of slaughter from the surrounding society affects readings and depictions of slaughter and abattoirs in literature, and on the degree to which depictions of animals being slaughtered creates an avenue for empathic reactions in the reader or the opportunity for reflections on human-animal relations. Through chapters on abattoir fictions in relation to narrative empathy, anthropomorphism, urban spaces, rural spaces, human identities and horror fiction, Sune Borkfelt contributes to debates in literary animal studies, human-animal studies and beyond.Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature,2634-6346Animals in literatureHuman-animal relationships in literatureSlaughtering and slaughter-housesIn literatureSlaughtering and slaughter-housesSocial aspectsAnimals in literature.Human-animal relationships in literature.Slaughtering and slaughter-housesIn literature.Slaughtering and slaughter-housesSocial aspects.894.36809.05Borkfelt Sune1227714MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910568238603321Reading Slaughter2850634UNINA