Flesh of the City: Slaughterhouses and the Urban
| Autor: | Sune Borkfelt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Zdroj: | Reading Slaughter ISBN: 9783030989149 Borkfelt, S 2022, Flesh of the City : Slaughterhouses and the Urban . in Reading Slaughter : Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity . Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, pp. 111-150 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98915-6_4 |
| Popis: | This chapter takes its starting point in the fact that the emergence of the modern abattoir as an isolated space is inseparable from the development of the modern city. The modern city is often imagined as a place free from most nonhuman animals, but also as a place in which humans are crowded together and become anonymous or devalued in ways that may resemble the role of the nonhuman animals destined to become meat. Reading a range of texts spanning the twentieth century, this chapter discusses the different ways in which slaughterhouses are conceptually both connected to, and disconnected from, the city and its human beings in works by Upton Sinclair, Alfred Döblin, Tillie Olsen, Scott Nearing, Archie Hind, and Tristan Egolf. From the different contexts and approaches of these authors, emerge slaughterhouse fictions that at once differ from each other in significant ways and speak to the development of both the modern city and the modern abattoir. |
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