Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines

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ANIMAL STORIES Cary Wolfe SERIES EDITOR 15 Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines Susan McHugh 14 Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines Dominic Pettman 13 Junkware Thierry Bardini 12 A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans, with A Theory of Meaning Jakob von Uexküll 11 Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology Jussi Parikka 10 Cosmopolitics II Isabelle Stengers 9 Cosmopolitics I Isabelle Stengers 8 What Is Posthumanism? Cary Wolfe 7 Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic John Protevi 6 Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times Nicole Shukin 5 Dorsality: Thinking Back through Technology and Politics David Wills 4 Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy Roberto Esposito 3 When Species Meet Donna J. Haraway 2 The Poetics of DNA Judith Roof 1 The Parasite Michel Serres ANIMAL STORIES Narrating across Species Lines Susan McHugh University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Portions of the Introduction were previously published as “Literary Animal Agents,” PMLA: Publication of the Modern Language Association 124, no. 2 (2009): 487–95. An earlier version of chapter 3 was published as “Marrying My Bitch: J. R. Ackerley’s Pack Aesthetics,” Critical Inquiry 27, no. 1 (2000): 21–41. A revisedversion of chapter 4 was previously published as “Bringing Up Babe,” Camera Obscura 49 (2002): 149–87. Copyright 2011 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McHugh, Susan. Animal stories : narrating across species lines / Susan McHugh. p. cm. — (Posthumanities ; v. 15) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-7032-1 (alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8166-7033-8 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. American fiction—20th century—History and criticism. 2. English fiction—20th century—History and criticism. 3. Animals in literature. 4. Human–animal relationships in literature. 5. Agent (Philosophy) in literature. I. Title. PS374.A54M39 2011 813’.6080362—dc22 2010032186 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 My mother-in-law’s collie bitch Susan and my sister’s paint gelding Sioux inspire this dedication to those for whom names can serve as powerful reminders of how kinship is only one among many powerful forms of relating. This page intentionally left blank ...