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Countering Anthropocentrism: Vegetarian Vampires, Ecology, and Non-Human Subjects

Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi

This volume offers an eco-critical and post-humanist deconstruction of ecologies, environmentalisms, trans- and post-humanisms represented in the 21st century vampire narratives. The corpus encompasses the so-called Western narratives (anglo- and francophone), as well as the Eastern European ones (Polish and Russian). The structural analysis of the vampire narratives focuses on the main topoi: the ecological attitudes and statements as expressed by the actors of the stories themselves; the narratives' attitude towards the animals; the vampire and human actors' diet(s); the actors' and the narrative definition and positioning of the non-human. The volume follows the topoi's complex entanglements presenting a multidimensional insight into the contemporary stances on the world-realities.

Book Details

  • Publisher: V&R Unipress
  • Publish Date: Jul 14th, 2025
  • Pages: 270
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 1.25lb
  • EAN: 9783847118695
  • Categories: General

About the Author

Pichnicka-Trivedi, Patrycja: - "Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi is a member of Non-anthropocentric Cultural Subjectivities project at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She wrote her PhD thesis on the cultural meanings of the 21st century vampire narratives. "