Violent Child-Animal Encounters in European Literatures

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Violent Child-Animal Encounters in European Literatures is written by Valeska Bopp-Filimonov and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3662720590 (ISBN 10) and 9783662720592 (ISBN 13).

Child-animal encounters are omnipresent in literature, but the fact that these interactions are sometimes marked by violence remains rather underrepresented in literary studies. Thus, this volume examines the complex interplay of childhood, animality and violence in European literatures. The contributors show that animal-child conflicts are often representative of larger issues such as social and intergenerational inequalities, deeply embedded in broader ideological and social frameworks: whether read through the lens of colonialism, capitalism or communism these encounters negotiate fundamental questions about hierarchy, dominance, and agency.