ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others

Animal Others play a major role in defining ideas of the human in literature, the visual arts, and culture from prehistoric times to the present. The panel will present broad cultural and theoretical perspectives on this issue as well as specific examples from a number of historical periods, cultural regions, genres, and media.

Friday, March 24

Lucian Ghita, Yale University
“Hunting the Animal ‘Other’ in Euripides and Shakespeare”
Naama Harel, Haifa University
“The Nonhuman Animal as the Ultimate Other”
Lindgren Johnson, University of Mississippi
“Slaughter, Slavery, and Suffrage: Rendering the Human and Animal in the Slaughterhouse Cases and Charles Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman”
Howard Darren, UCLA
“Vindicating the Rights of Man, Woman, and Brute in the Shadow of the French Revolution”

Saturday, March 25

Teresa Mangum, University of Iowa
“Penned In: Animals and Narrative Enclosure”
Anat Pick, University of East London
“Animal Ethnographies: Cinema and the Poetics of Species”
Chia-ju Chang, Trinity University
“Whose Story of Survival?: An East-West Comparative Study of the Cinematic Narratives of Endangered Animals and Their Human Guardians”

Sunday, March 26

Thomas L. Cooksey, Armstrong Atlantic State University
“Human Aspects: A Wittgensteinian Reading of the Beast Fable”
Aparna Zambare, Central Michigan University
“The Animal Other in the Panchatantra”
Steven F. Walker, Rutgers University
“The Animal Spectator and Narrator and the Birth of the Novel”
Janet A. Walker, Rutgers University
“The Animal Narrator in Hoffmann’s Kater Murr and Sôseki’s Wagahai wa neko de aru (I Am a Cat)”