Animal Disorders

by Deborah Thompson

Overview

Animal disorders— those erratic, contradictory, irrational relationships that humans have with their nonhuman compatriots— abound in contemporary U.S. culture. In a series of personal essays, Deborah Thompson relates her own complicity in some of these disordered approaches to nonhuman animals, including such practices as pet-keeping, animal hoarding, animal sacrifice (both religious and scientific), magical thinking, and grieving. The sometimes funny, sometimes poignant essays in this collection deliver dispatches from one representative sufferer of animal disorders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781625571243
Publisher:	Black Lawrence Press
Publication date:	10/09/2023
Sold by:	INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	126
File size:	504 KB

About the Author

Debby Thompson is a Professor of English at Colorado State University, where teaches literature and creative nonfiction. She has published creative and critical essays, and has won the Missouri Review and Iowa Review awards in creative nonfiction, as well as a Pushcart prize. She is the author of Pretzel, Houdini, and Olive: Essays on the Dogs of My Life, (Red Hen Press, 2020) and is working on a nonfiction book on mythologies of dogs in American culture.