Animal Disorders

by Deborah Thompson

Overview

Animal disordersóthose 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.

Literary Nonfiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781625570253
Publisher:	Black Lawrence Press
Publication date:	11/01/2021
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

1 Consider the Hamster 1

2 Big Cats 12

3 The Meaning of Meat 21

4 The Blue Heron Returns 34

5 See Monkey Dance, Make Good Photo 50

6 For the Polar Bears 61

7 The Other Thompson 67

8 Schrodinger's Dogs 83

9 Pack Theory 92

10 A Bitchuary 99

Acknowledgments 102