Through a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and Lived Activism

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-948908-10-8
Verlag: University of Nevada Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Cultural Ecologies of Food in the 21st Century

Interest in the vegan studies field continues to grow as veganism has become increasingly visible via celebrity endorsements and universally acknowledged health benefits, and veganism and vegan characters are increasingly present in works of art and literature. Through a Vegan Studies Lens broadens the scope of vegan studies by engaging in the mainstream discourse found in a wide variety of contemporary works of literature, popular cultural representations, advertising, and news media.

Veganism is a practice that allows for environmentally responsible consumer choices that are viewed, particularly in the West, as oppositional to an economy that is largely dependent upon big agriculture. This groundbreaking collection exposes this disruption, critiques it, and offers a new roadmap for navigating and reimaging popular culture representations on veganism. These essays engage a wide variety of political, historical, and cultural issues, including contemporary political and social circumstances, emergent veganism in Eastern Europe, climate change, and the Syrian refugee crisis, among other topics.

Through a Vegan Studies Lens significantly furthers the conversation of what a vegan studies perspective can be and illustrates why it should be an integral part of cultural studies and critical theory. Vegan studies is inclusive, refusing to ignore the displacement, abuse, and mistreatment of nonhuman animals. It also looks to ignite conversations about cultural oppression.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Doing Vegan Studies: An Introduction vii Laura Wright
- Part I: Vegan Studies, Expanding Ecocriticism(s) 1
- Chapter 1: Vegans in Locavore Literature  3 Kathryn Kirkpatrick
- Chapter 2: The New Environmental Literature: Perspectives of a Vegan Publisher  19 John Yunker
- Chapter 3: How We Feel about (Not) Eating Animals: Vegan Studies and Cognitive Ecocriticism 31 Alexa Weik von Mossner
- Part II: Vegan Studies in the United States 51
- Chapter 4: The Sexual Politics of Meat in the Trump Era 53 Carol J. Adams
- Chapter 5: A Vegan Rhetorical Approach to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle 75 Ryan Phillips
- Chapter 6: Soylent Veganism: A Meditation on Cannibalism, Consumerism, and Veg Politics 93 Thomas J. Hertweck
- Chapter 7: Scarecrow Veganism: The Straw Man of Buddhist Vegan Identity in Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker and Jonathan Franzen’s Purity 111 Christopher Kocela
- Part III: Vegan Studies Beyond the West 133
- Chapter 8: South Africa “My Culture in a Tupperware”: Situational Ethics in Zoë Wicomb’s October 135 Caitlin E. Stobie
- Chapter 9: Estonia
- The Rise of Veganism in Post-Socialist Europe: Making Sense of Emergent Vegan Practices and Identities in Estonia 151 Kadri Aavik
- Chapter 10: South Korea Looking at the Vegetarian Body: Narrative Points of View and Blind Spots in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian 171 Margarita Carretero-González
- Chapter 11: Nonviolence through Veganism: An Anti-Racist Postcolonial Strategy for Healing, Agency, and Respect 187 Shanti Chu
- Part IV: Hypocrites and Hipsters; Meat and Meatlessness 209
- Chapter 12: H is for Hypocrite: Reading “New Nature Writing” Through the Lens of Vegan Theory 211 Alex Lockwood
- Chapter 13: The Best Little Slaughterhouse in Portland: Hipsters and the Rhetoric of Meat 229 D. Gilson
- Chapter 14: Meatless Mondays?: A Vegan Studies Approach to Resistance in the College Classroom 247 Natalie M. Dorfeld
- Conclusion 265 Laura Wright
- About the Editor and Contributors 279

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Wright is the author of three books and a professor of English at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, where she specializes in postcolonial literatures and theory, ecocriticism, and animal studies.