I loved Flossie and the Fox and Kynard’s blog post about it. Kynard points out the difference in the opening lines from ‘once upon a time’ to ‘did i ever tell you about the time’. She posits that this makes…

I’m interested in the similarities and differences between stories about non-human animals (or other than human people, as Harde puts it) and those that appear as both animal and human. Harde discusses in the section on bears “That the bear…

I was really interested in Ratelle’s discussion of the dichotomy between subjectivity and edibility and how Charlotte seems to know that if Wilbur can be seen as an individual or subject, as ‘some pig’, that he will be saved from…

I don’t think I had ever read Dr. Doolittle before and even knowing that it is considered a peak example of racist and colonialist tropes I was surprised at just how incredibly racist it was. As I was reading I…

I really loved the ‘As the Crow Flies’ article, I was fascinated by the way Fielder tracks the ideas of the crow and the Flying Africans throughout folkore and literature, and the way she brought out the much more rich…

Chez talked about in her intro the idea of pet keeping as training for capitalism and Feurstein & Nolte Odhiambo similarly talk about pet characters contributing to the socialization of the child character while Flegel talked about the creation of…

In reading Cosslett’s Animal Autobiographies I was interested in the idea of the audience/purpose of the stories. She talks about the majority of these books being addressed to children “as part of their education in sympathy” but also points out…

Agustin Fuentes and Natalie Porter, the authors of the Kinship keyword, lay out two definitions of kinship that have a scholarly split. The first is the idea of “biological” kinship, relationships we are born into that rely on the ideas…