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In questo volume si vuole dare conto di come alcuni fra i massimi artisti contemporanei polacchi e tedeschi si riferiscano alle macro-tematiche dell'identità (nazionale, di genere) e della memoria. Una memoria che, in questi casi e in entrambi i Paesi, converge intorno all'anus mundi, Auschwitz nella sua dimensione concreta e simbolica: l'assassinio degli ebrei europei, realizzato dai nazisti e dai loro collaboratori in terra polacca. Punto di partenza per l'analisi di opere di artisti come Mirosław Bałka, Elżbieta Janicka, Zbigniew Libera, e Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Eva & Adele, è la descrizione di alcune mostre, dalla pioneristica Mirroring Evil (New York, 2002) alla recente Estranged (Varsavia, 2018), riferendo anche di cataloghi e recensioni: in breve, dell'impatto 'sociale' e pubblico dell'arte. [Testo dell'editore]

• My Bunny Valentine
• Scrunchie
• The Elachi Zone

On the night of October 6, 1998, in Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew Wayne Shepard (1976-1998) was brutally killed solely because he was gay. It was a shocking murder that was nationally covered in the media, and it became a rallying cry for the LGBTQ+ rights movement. In 2009, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was signed by President Barack Obama, expanding the federal hate crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. With a foreword by Jason Collins--the first openly gay active player in the NBA--and written by Lesľa Newman--author of the Stonewall Honor-winning novel-in-verse October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard and a friend of the Shepard family--Always Matt is an emotional yet ultimately hopeful look at the progress that's been made, as well as the work that still continues, in advocating for the dignity and equality of all people.

"A funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink--who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled--the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across London, armed with a £200 cake, to win back her estranged teenage daughter on her sixteenth birthday. Because today is the day she'll remind her daughter that no matter how far we fall, we can always get back up again. Because Grace Adams used to be amazing. Her husband thought so. Her daughter thought so. Even Grace thought so. But everyone seems to have forgotten. Grace is about to remind them... and, most important, remind herself"-- Provided by publisher.

Gina Ferrara's collection AMISS might be subtitled, "American Femicide": these lyric poems are sympathetic, even intimate, elegies for, and apostrophes to, women killed or missing in every state in the Union."Gina Ferrara's collection AMISS might be subtitled, 'American Femicide': these lyric poems are sympathetic, even intimate, elegies for, and apostrophes to, women killed or missing in every state in the Union, and our North American landscape (beautifully evoked), seems involved in their fates. Notice, for instance, how often the vaunted freedom of the road turns out to be something else for these passengers: women 'driven in the direction / of what always goes wrong.' Notice, also, the details, as Ferrara chooses her images with the fierce attention of an angelic detective--a bright blue van, a bible, a deck of cards spilled from an abandoned purse--so that an earned and grounded empathy propels the clear voice, along with the desire for justice. In these quick and vivid poems Ferrara makes of grief an illuminating fire, from which the poet speaks of and to the missing and dead women with exemplary, tenderly respectful, imagination, memory, and knowledge. I have so much admiration for this poet's courage--Ferrara has gone among the ghosts and faced the terror every woman in our violent homeland spends a significant portion of her life trying not to think about..."--Laura Mullen"Gina Ferrara writes with an uncanny attention to color and light, evoking depths of emotion from minute sensory details. This, her signature technique, is employed with chilling effectiveness in this collection of elegies to 52 murdered women, one for each of our United States, plus two more, as if the grief expressed here would overflow any national or political container. And yet it is a sobering chronicle of a distinctly American epidemic of violence against women. This is a stunning book, reverent, powerful, immensely sad."--Bill LavenderPoetry. Women's Studies.

• Intro
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Figures
• A Satire by Way of a Preface
• Chapter 1: The Hall of the Sovereigns
• Introduction
• Chapter 2: Animal Satire: An Introduction
• Works Cited
• Part I: Drama and Poetry: Animal Satire in Classics, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies
• Chapter 3: Dogs in Court and Sheep in the Assembly: Animal Satire in Aristophanes
• Plot Summary
• Animal Imagery in Wasps
• The Dog Trial
• Sosias' Dream
• Philocleon and Animals
• Conclusion
• Works Cited
• Chapter 4: The "Battle of the Frogs and Mice" (Batrachomyomachia) and Satire in the Ancient Greco-Roman Tradition
• Satura Quidem ...
• Frogs and Mice
• Works Cited
• Chapter 5: Making an Ass of Yourself? The Pointed Comedy of the Mirror for Fools
• Context and Synopsis
• Key Elements of Animal Satire and Key Sources in The Mirror for Fools
• Key Satirical Targets of The Mirror for Fools
• Modern Resonances
• Conclusion
• Works Cited
• Manuscripts and Incunabula
• Chapter 6: What Can Beast Fables Do in Literary Animal Studies? Ben Jonson's Volpone and the Prehumanist Human
• The Beast Fable
• The Paragon of Animals
• Old and New Continuums
• Works Cited
• Chapter 7: "That was a rare experiment of transfusing the blood of a sheep into a mad-man": Animal Experiments and Satirical Knowledge in Thomas Shadwell's The Virtuoso
• Works Cited
• Satirical Interruption
• Chapter 8: A Slaves' Revolt
• Part II: Satirical Editorials and Fiction: Early Through High Modernist Studies
• Chapter 9: "A green Parrot for a good Speaker": Writing with a Birds-Eye View in Eliza Haywood's The Parrot
• The Avian Eidolon
• Allegories and Outsiders: Eighteenth-Century Bird Satire
• Reading with Parrots
• Figuring out The Parrot
• Becoming-Parrot
• Conclusion
• Works Cited.

• Chapter 10: The Lacking Satirical Animals of Mary Shelley's The Last Man
• Works Cited
• Chapter 11: Learning About Race and Religion with Bob and Felissa: Satire in Nineteenth-Century Children's It-Narratives
• Works Cited
• Chapter 12: Nineteenth-Century American Anti-extinction Humour: "A Polar Whale's Appeal" as Environmentalist Animal Satire
• Sincerity and Sentiment: Misinterpreting "A Polar Whale's Appeal"
• Irony and Satire: A Reinterpretation of "A Polar Whale's Appeal"
• Works Cited
• Chapter 13: Vivisections, Vaccinations, Revelations: Ecofeminist Satire and Biopolitical Dystopia in Frances Power Cobbe's The Age of Science
• Works Cited
• Chapter 14: "Wolf within the Fold": Satire and Animality in The Brutalitarian and The Beagler Boy
• Works Cited
• Chapter 15: Animals and Animality in Saki's Satirical Short Stories
• Animals and Satirical Short Fiction
• Beastly Humans and Unruly Animals in Saki's Short Fiction
• Conclusion
• Works Cited
• Chapter 16: Satire and Significant Otherness in Virginia Woolf's Flush: A Biography
• Darwinian Dogs
• Woolf, Darwin, Eugenics
• From Pedigree to Race and Animality
• Racialised Dogs
• The Bestialised, Animalised, Working Classes
• Works Cited
• Satirical Interruption
• Chapter 17: How to Slaughter a Human
• Part III: Animal Satire in Contemporary Literature, Film and Media Studies
• Chapter 18: "Thanks a lot, big brain": Satirical Misanthropy in Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos
• Queer Misanthropy
• Posthuman Satire
• Lateral Comedy
• Works Cited
• Chapter 19: "Dogs are supposed to be able to instinctively live with purpose": Brian, Family Guy, and the Inevitable Anthropocentrism of Satire
• Works Cited
• Chapter 20: The Paradox of the Charismatic Pig in The Simpsons Movie and Okja
• The Simpsons and the Spider Pig: Or, with Great Piggery Comes Great Responsibility.

• Okja Come Home: Or, a Girl and her Pig Escape from New York
• Pigs in the Parlour or a Pig in a Poke? The Industrial/Cinematic Pig
• Works Cited
• Chapter 21: [Sic] Beasts
• The History of Satire and Its Implication for the Texts in Question
• Works Cited
• Chapter 22: The Satirical Rhetorics of [Re]Tweeting Birds
• @Twitter
• @OED
• @Hungry_Birds
• @ProBirdRights
• @ChickenTreat
• @BigBird
• @BirdsArentReal
• @Twitter: Redux
• Works Cited
• A Satire by Way of Conclusion
• Chapter 23: The Need for Giant Ape Protection: A Petition to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee
• A Grab-bag of Animal Satires
• Chapter 24: A Grab-bag of Animal Satires
• Ancient and Pre-modern Satires
• Sixteenth Century
• Seventeenth Century
• Eighteenth Century
• Nineteenth Century
• Twentieth Century
• Twenty-First Century
• Notes on Contributors
• Index.

Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations. Highlighting the teeming animal presences across the history of satirical expression from Aristophanes to Twitter, with chapters on key works of literature, drama, film, and a plethora of satirical media, Animal Satire reveals the rich rhetorical significance of animality in powering the politics of satire from ancient and medieval through modern and contemporary times. More pressingly, the book makes the case for the significance of satire for understanding the real-world implications of rhetoric about animals in ongoing struggles for justice. By gathering both critical and creative examples from representative media forms, historical periods, and continents, this volume aims to enrich scholarship on the history of satire as well as empower creative practitioners with ideas about its practical applications today. Robert McKay is Professor of Contemporary Literature, School of English, University of Sheffield, UK. He has co-edited Animal Remains (2022), Against Value in the Arts and Education (2016), and Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic (2017). He is the co-author (with the Animal Studies Group) of Killing Animals (2006). Susan McHugh is Professor of English, School of Arts and Humanities, University of New England, USA. She is the author of Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-animal Stories against Extinction and Genocide (2019), Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines (2011), and Dog (2004). She is co-editor of several volumes, including Posthumanism in Art and Science (2021) and Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, and the Arts: Animal Studies in Modern Worlds (Palgrave 2017). Robert McKay and Susan McHugh are co-editors (with John Miller) of the Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature book series, as well as the volume The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature (Palgrave 2021).

• Introduction
• Developing an understanding of archaeology in Antarctica- human interactions with a polar environment
• The history of archaeological investigations in Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic Islands
• The archaeology of the South Shetland Islands
• Approaching sealers’ practices and experiences
• Final thoughts.

"Archaeology in Antarctica outlines the history of archaeology in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic. The book details for the first time all past archaeological work in Antarctica, relating to both its use for conservation and research purposes, drawing on published, unpublished and oral information. This work has addressed historic and current scientific bases, explorers' huts, whaling stations and sealing shelters. The ongoing and long-term research on the sealing shelters and sites in the South Shetland Islands features prominently. The archaeology enables new perspectives on the impact of global modernity and empire in the Antarctic, and challenges established dominant discourses on the 'heroic' nature of human interaction with the continent. The work on sealing sites gives voice to the experiences of the sealer as a subaltern group previously largely overlooked by historical sources. This book will appeal to students and researchers in archaeology, history, and heritage as well as readers interested in the human and historical aspects of Antarctica's past and present"-- Provided by publisher.

"Fierce, poignant sci-fi, about hacking, love, and resistance. Jumping to alternate realities sounds great, if you're in control. But what if you're not? What if you're propelled away from the people and places you love the most in the blink of an eye? And what if these involuntary journeys happen because your neurochemistry is different, and your brain works differently? Beautiful, compassionate, and resourceful as she is, this is Rea's problem. A latina trans woman and an academic, she is beloved by a tight circle of friends, who fully accept her without knowing the cause of her disappearances. But she is haunted by the lovers and family that she cannot trace back to, and fears she might be separated from them forever. Each time she transits into a new time and space, everything shifts—even the films and writing Rea produces readjust their molecules to match her new quantum reality. But Rea, a brilliant lay scientist, is determined to crack the code, and end her quest for lasting connections and home. "-- Amazon.com.