Includes bibliographical references and index Margo Demello: Introduction Karla Armbruster: Part I: (Mis) Representing Animals: The Limits and Possibilities of Representation. 1. What Do We Want from Talking Animals? Reflections on Literary Representations of Animal Voices and Minds Ryan Hediger: 2. Our Animals, Ourselves: Representing Animal Minds in Timothy and The White Bone Naama Harel: 3. Investigations of a Dog, by a Dog: Between Anthropocentrism and Canine-Centrism Laura Hobgood-Oster: Part II: Animals in Human Traditions. 4. With Dogs and Lions as Witnesses: Speaking Animals in the History of Christianity Lisa Brown: 5. The Speaking Animal: Non-Human Voices in Comics Nancy Babb: 6. Who'll Let the Dogs In? Animals, Authorship, and the Library Catalog Monica Flegel: Part III: Animal Self, Human Self. 7. Mistresses as Masters: Voicing Female Power Through the Subject Animal in Two Nineteenth-Century Animal Autobiographies Jennifer L. Schally and Stephen R. Couch: 8. Catster.com: Creating Feline Identities Online Margo DeMello: 9. Identity, Community and Grief: The Role of Bunspace in Human and Rabbit Lives Merit Anglin: Part IV: Interspecies Communication and Connection. 10. Talking Dogs, Companion Capital, and the Limits of Bio-Political Fitness Kathy Rudy: 11. If We Could Talk to the Animals: On Changing the (Post) Human Subject Anne Milne: Part V: Speaking and Knowing: Accessing Animal Subjectivity. 13. The Power of Testimony: The Speaking Animal’s Plea for Understanding in a Selection of Eighteenth-Century British Poetry Marion Copeland: 14. "Straight from the Horse’s Mouth": Equine Memoirs and Autobiographies Jill Morstad: 14. First Friend, First Words: Speaking of/to Talking Dogs Natalie Corinne Hansen: Part VI: The Ethics and Value of Speaking for Animals. 15. Horse Talk: Horses and Human(e) Discourses Nikki Savvides: 16. Speaking For Dogs: The Role of Dog Biographies in Improving Canine Welfare in Bangkok, Thailand G.A. Bradshaw.: 17. The Elephant Letters: The Story of Billy and Kani |
