Publisher:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
This innovative volume approaches the intriguing relationship between humans and horses in 21st-century Anglophone fiction and autobiography from the perspectives of affect and politics. It addresses the strong emotional power attached to the...
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This innovative volume approaches the intriguing relationship between humans and horses in 21st-century Anglophone fiction and autobiography from the perspectives of affect and politics. It addresses the strong emotional power attached to the human-horse bond, and contextualizes horse narratives within debates concerning identity and its politics. The in-depth analysis deals with topics such as the intertwinement of humans and animals, healing, mourning, and nostalgia in horse narratives, and the formation of gendered and national identities. The volume pays particular attention to life writing
1. Introduction -- Part I: Autobiographical Perspectives. 2. Intimate Human–Horse Relationships: Affect and Therapy in Susan Richards’s Chosen by a Horse: How a Broken Horse Fixed a Broken Heart ; 3. Riding towards Healing in Rupert Isaacson’s The Horse Boy ; 4. Politics of Horsemanship: Buck Brannaman, Trust, and Discipline -- Part II: Representing Humans and Horses in Fiction. 5. Land, Humans, and Horses in Gillian Mears’s Foal’s Bread ; 6. Negotiating Fandom and Nostalgia in Follyfoot Fanfiction ; 7. Horsescapes: Space, Nation, and Human–Horse Relations in Jane Smiley’s Horse Heaven
