Zoo-Integrations: On Beasts of Burden by Sunaura Taylor Cover Image

Zoo-integracje. Śladem Bydlęcego brzemienia Sunaury Taylor
Zoo-Integrations: On Beasts of Burden by Sunaura Taylor

Author(s): Anita Jarzyna
Subject(s): Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Book-Review
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: animal studies; disability studies; ableism; anthropocentrism; works of Sunaura Taylor

Summary/Abstract: This article is a contextual discussion of Sunaura Taylor’s pioneering book Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, dedicated to a parallel critique of anthropocentrism and ableism as two interlocking systems of oppression that propel each other. The review notes the prospects for a (critical) use of the American scholar’s thesis in literary studies, and points out examples of specific works deserving reinterpretation within such a framework.

  • Issue Year: 32/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 355-370
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish