Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

Introduction: Beastly Modernisms

pp 1-20

Part I - Companion Species

pp 21-22

1 - Metamodernist Beasts, or Flush’s Future: Ceridwen Dovey’s Only the Animals and Sigrid Nunez’s Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury

pp 23-24

2 - Can Flush Count?: Virginia Woolf, Animality and Numbers

pp 38-55

3 - Canine Companions, Race and Affective Anthropomorphism in Florence Ayscough’s The Autobiography of a Chinese Dog (1926) and Mary Gaunt’s A Broken Journey (1919)

pp 56-72

Part II - Beastly Traces

pp 73-74

4 - Making an Impression Deeply: Authorising Animals in D. H. Lawrence

pp 75-90

5 - Following the Beast Familiar: Djuna Barnes’s Family Dramas

pp 91-106

6 - The Taxidermic Imaginary in Modernist Literature

pp 107-122

Part III - Animal, Nation, Empire

pp 123-124

7 - Species Cleansing: The Rhetoric of Rat Control in the People’s Republic of Poland 1945–1956

pp 125-142

8 - The Barking Dog and Crying Bird in Partition Stories: Beastly Modernism and the Subaltern Animism of Manto, Rakesh and Anand

pp 143-158

9 - Resistant Reindeers: Human–Animal Relations and Cultural Self-Appropriation in Sámi Art and Literature

pp 159-178

Part IV - Intersections, Encounters

pp 179-180

10 - Animal–Human Entanglements in the Canadian Wild Animal Stories of Charles G. D. Roberts

pp 181-197

11 - Encountering Female Human Animal Becomings in Leonora Carrington’s Surrealist Hybrid Tales

pp 199-214

12 - Modern Intersections: Reading Anita Scott Coleman’s Animals

pp 215-228

Part V - Extinction, War, Proliferation

pp 229-230

13 - 1940s Avian Noir

pp 231-247

14 - Unhoming the Pigeon: Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi

pp 248-262

15 - The Modernist Jellyfish

pp 263-278

Afterword: The Animal in the Mirror

pp 279-291

Notes on Contributors

pp 292-296

Index

pp 297-306