Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity eBook

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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.

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Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity is written by Sune Borkfelt and published by Palgrave Macmillan. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Reading Slaughter are 9783030989156, 3030989151 and the print ISBNs are 9783030989149, 3030989143.