Countering Anthropocentrism

Vegetarian Vampires, Ecology, and Non-Human Subjects

by Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi

Extent: 291 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality, Literary Studies, Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Series: Culture - Environment - Society

Series volume number: 4

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(June 2025)

ISBN: 9783847118695

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $69.00

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The volume analyses 21st century vampire narratives from Western and non-Western cultural contexts in order to examine the stances towards the non-human and more-than-human in the contemporary world.

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.

By (author) Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi

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