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- Title
The Glocal Practice of Anthropomorphism: Storying Chinese Wild Animals for Young Readers.
- Authors
You, Chengcheng
- Abstract
This article examines the generic dilemma in the representation of realistic wild animals in Shixi Shen's Jackal and Wolf (2012) and Gerelchimeg Blackcrane's Black Flame (2013), whereby the glocal features of anthropomorphism are found pertaining to the narrative artistry. Drawn from anthropomorphism studies, literary animal studies, and Chinese cultural tradition, it is argued that Shen's mode of narration subscribes to the generic hybridity as a strategy of moral education to attract juvenile readers, whereas Blackcrane's story enacts anthropomorphism critically towards the environmental ethics of witnessing. Conjoining the poetics of wild animal stories across cultures, this study further proposes the ethical capacity of anthropomorphism in storying wild animals in the Anthropocene.
- Subjects
ANIMAL young; ENVIRONMENTAL ethics; ANTHROPOMORPHISM; GLOCALIZATION; ANIMAL stories; MORAL education
- Publication
International Research in Children's Literature, 2023, Vol 16, Issue 2, p155
- ISSN
1755-6198
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/ircl.2023.0505