Jennifer McDonell Jennifer McDonell i(A14621 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Literary Studies, The Animal Turn, and the Academy Jennifer McDonell , 2013 single work
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 32 no. 4 2013; (p. 6-14)

‘The rapidly growing field of human-animal studies (HAS) is a vibrant, varied domain of methodological convergences and divergences, united by a shared concern with studying the complex entanglement of human and animal lives. To think seriously about animals on their own terms is to begin to question the co-construction of the categories of the human and the animal that underpins human the animal that underpins human exceptionalism. Unpicking the human/animal binary, however, is no simple matter: not only is this construction unstable but as prisoners of human language we also have a tendency to reinstate it even as we think we challenge it. This paper will provide an analysis of significant developments and preoccupations in the field of literary HAS. Some of the most vexing questions within this area will be contextualised by way of reference to the Bandit and Michael Vick cases in the US and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, in particular scenes depicting David Laurie’s encounter with unwanted dogs at an animal shelter.’ (Publication abstract)

1 Inherited Affinities with an American Poetic Tradition Jennifer McDonell , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 March 1995; (p. C13)

— Review of Black Night with Windows Nicolette Stasko , 1994 selected work poetry
1 Questions of Sex and Power Jennifer McDonell , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 April 1995; (p. C13)

— Review of The First Stone : Some Questions About Sex and Power Helen Garner , 1995 single work prose
1 Sydney Writers at Festival Time Jennifer McDonell , 1986 single work
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 46 no. 1 1986; (p. 124-128)
1 Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children Jennifer McDonell , 1984 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 44 no. 4 1984; (p. 394-413)
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