Abstract

FLEISNER, Paula. Life of Dogs: between Children's Literature and Philosophy of Animality. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2017, vol.19, n.1, pp.111-138. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.vl9n1.60749.

In this article, I will start with an outline of the theoretical framework from which the relevance of literature to the current philosophy of animality becomes clear. Secondly, I will review some works in which love between human animals and dogs is figured with the aim of reestablishing the subjectivity lost in the modern world. Thirdly, I will point out the specificity of children's literature in the exercise of thinking about non-human alterity, and finally, I will give a reading of Aventuras y desventuras de Casiperro del hambre (Adventures and misadventures of Poordog the Starved) by Graciela Montes, under the hypothesis that this children's novel manifests essential elements for a criticism of the humanistic treatment of "domestic" animals, and for a reflection oninterspecies love to come: a love no longer sustained by access to the interior being of another (dog or human) but by the maximum opacity of strangers.

Keywords : Posthumanism; philosophy of animality; children's literature.

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