Countering Anthropocentrism Vegetarian Vampires, Ecology, and Non-Human Subjects

• Main Author: Pichnicka-Trivedi, Patrycja
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Göttingen Brill 2025
• Series: Culture – Environment – Society
• Subjects: Animal metaphors; Animal studies; Biography, Literature and Literary studies; Cultural and media studies; Cultural studies; Ecocriticism; Ecology; Environmentalism; Food studies; Gender studies, gender groups; Literary studies: general; Literature: history and criticism; Narratives; Posthumanism; Social groups, communities and identities; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Vampire; Vegetarianism
• ISBN: 3847118692; 9783737018692; 9783847118695; 3737018693
• DOI: 10.14220/9783737018692

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 nonhuman. The volume follows the topoi’s complex entanglements presenting a multidimensional insight into the contemporary stances on the world-realities.