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Abstract
This timely book deals with the theme of human-animal transformations in modern literature from Europe’s northernmost part, all of which are structured by power and agency in relation to the Western tradition’s human/animal divide. The figure of transformation simultaneously contains subversive and conservative potential because the transformation can be voluntary and liberating or forced, oppressive and degrading. This means that human-animal transformation in literature is about agency, change and politics. The purpose of the book is to bring out the tension between the anthropocentric and more-thananthropocentric worlds imbedded in the figure of human-animal transformation.
Recommended Citation
Mondry, Henrietta, [Review] Ann-Sofie Lönngren. Following the Animal: Power, Agency, and Human-Animal Transformations in Modern, Northern-European Literature, Animal Studies Journal, 6(2), 2017, 233-236.Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss2/14
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