Contact Zones: Humans, Horses, and the Stories of Marguerite Henry

This article focuses on the novels of an award-winning author whose popular horse stories have nonetheless been largely disregarded by children’s literature scholars. Taking issue with the anthropocentric frameworks used by many to dismiss the horse story genre, the article argues that Marguerite Henry’s novels foreshadow the concerns of contemporary posthumanists such as Donna Haraway. It thus contributes to the growing body of scholarship exploring the ways in which children’s animal stories reimagine human subjectivity by highlighting interactive and interdependent forms of embodiment and being.