TY - JOUR
TI - Human-Animal Alliances. Zoothanatological Readings in Perspective Beasts of Burden by Sunaura Taylor
AU - Ładoń, Monika
TI - Human-Animal Alliances. Zoothanatological Readings in Perspective Beasts of Burden by Sunaura Taylor
AB - 
	The author of the article presents selected threads of the book of Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden. Animal and Disability Liberation. Taylor is an American writer, painter and activist, who suffers from artrogryphosis. The essay is, on the one hand, based on author’s autobiographical experience of disability, and on the other hand, it concerned with the disabled community, defined as the “largest minority.” In the discussion of the book, the author of the article focuses on several issues. First, she presents Taylor’s argument leading to the recognition of the twin status of people with disabilities and animals. Secondly, based on disability studies and animal studies, the author considers the meaning of Taylor’s ideas, which points to the areas of mutual human-animal interactions and the possibilities of interspecies understanding based on care. The second part of the article presents the possibility of interpreting two novels: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez and Suka by Andrzej Stasiuk based on Taylor’s theories and the perspective of zoothanatology.
VL - 2023
IS - Issue 3 (57) 2023
PY - 2023
SN - 1897-1962
C1 - 2084-395X
SP - 143
EP - 160
DO - 10.4467/2084395XWI.23.024.18560
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/przymierza-ludzko-zwierzece-lektury-zootanatologiczne-w-perspektywie-bydlecego-brzemienia-sunaury-taylor
KW - disability studies
KW - animal studies
KW - zoothanatology
KW - Sunaura Taylor
KW - Sigrid Nunez