Disanimality: When Disability, Illness, and Animality Meet (Oxford Studies in Disability Ethics and Society)

Lundblad, Michael

ISBN 10: 0197845673 / ISBN 13: 9780197845677

Published by Oxford University Press, 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Disanimality: When Disability, Illness, and Animality Meet (Oxford Studies in Disability Ethics and Society)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197845673
• ISBN 13: 9780197845677
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Disanimality explores different ways of thinking about people with disabilities or chronic and terminal illnesses in relation to animals and advocacy for animal rights. The juxtaposition of disability, illness, and animality can be uncomfortable for many disability advocates, particularly if the suggestion is that the mistreatment of animals is somehow just like the mistreatment of people with disabilities. Lundblad labels that feeling of discomfort disanimality, exploring it through contemporary American novels, memoirs, and films. Instead of oversimplified comparisons, the book foregrounds theories from the fields of posthumanism, biopolitics, and animality studies, suggesting better ways of bringing together disability, illness, and animality.

About the Author

Michael Lundblad is Professor of English-Language Literature at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture (Oxford), the co-editor, with Gro Ween of Control: Attempting to Tame the World, the editor of Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human, and the co-editor, with Marianne DeKoven, of Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory. He is also the editor of special issues of New Literary History on "Animality/ Posthumanism/ Disability" and Tamkang Review on "Cetacean Nations".