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- W5527400 abstract "Among Animals: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction, edited by John Yunker. Ashland, ON: Ashland Creek Press, 2014 Reviewed by Sascha Morrell, University of New England This journal article is available in Animal Studies Journal: http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol3/iss1/8 85 Reviewed by Sascha Morrell University of New England John Yunker’s introduction to this valuable short story collection points to how humans have traditionally favoured certain animals over others: Some animals we welcome into our homes and our lives... Other animals do not receive such adoration or protection. Some are viewed as nuisances, others as expendable. We keep our distance from these species. (Yunker 1) Although the introduction suggests the book will challenge such distinctions (‘the many walls we have constructed’) readers will find that the more favoured animal species remain very much at the fore in the pages that follow. Among Animals presents fifteen short stories centring on human-animal interactions. The humans are primarily middle-class, educated and articulate. The animals are without exception vertebrates, and are overwhelmingly mammals. This weighting is not necessarily a weakness, but it does mean that the editor’s promise that ‘the stories you will read here are as diverse as the species they depict’ (1) should be taken on caution. It might have been better to emphasise the common ground that emerges, as the echoes and resonances between these stories are often more intriguing and revealing than their contrasts. Yunker is a novelist, animal rights activist and co-founder of Ashland Creek Press, a small press that (according to its website) aims to ‘foster an appreciation for worlds outside our" @default.
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