Other Nations : Animals in Modern Literature

by Regan, Tom

• ISBN13: 9781602582378
• ISBN10: 1602582378
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-01
• Publisher: Baylor Univ Pr

Summary

The world's first anthology designed to employ the power of fiction to illuminate our moral relationship with animals, Other Nations boasts a superb collection of writings from writers of great distinctionincluding Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and Alice Walker. By organizing the literary pieces according to the means by which human beings relate to the animals discussedas companions, as sources of food, as objects of sport and entertainment, and as subjects in scientific researchpreeminent scholars Tom Regan and Andrew Linzey enable readers to relate these texts (and these animals) to their own experiences and to the manifold issues now discussed in public forums. While the editors believe the time is ripe for radical change in the way human beings see and treat animals, this collection nonetheless presents various and contrary viewpoints, leaving readers to come to their own moral conclusions.

Author Biography

Tom Regn is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University. He is a prolific author whose books include Animal Rights, Human Wrongs: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy and Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights. Andrew Linzey is Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and a member of the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books, including Animal Rights: A Christian Assessment and Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics.

Table of Contents

Preface: Animals, Literature, and the Virtues	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Humans Encounter Other Animals
The Snake	p. 19
Snake	p. 22
Other Animals Encounter Humans
Arabesque-The Mouse	p. 29
Shooting an Elephant	p. 36
The Jack Rabbit Drive	p. 44
Other Animals as Companions
Pilling the Cat	p. 53
Lying Doggo	p. 58
My Life as a West African Gray Parrot	p. 73
Other Animals as Prey
The Pleasures of Hunting	p. 89
Sketches from a Hunter's Album	p. 97
Hunting at Sea	p. 99
The Gray Chieftain	p. 108
Other Animals as Tools
The Dead Body and the Living Brain	p. 117
Doctor Rat	p. 124
Terminal Procedure	p. 132
Other Animals as Food
The Slaughterer	p. 153
It Was a Different Day When They Killed the Pig	p. 164
How to Make a Pigeon Cry	p. 171
Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers	p. 179
Am I Blue?	p. 182
Epilogue
The Limits of Trooghaft	p. 189
The Writers	p. 199
Acknowledgments	p. 211
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