Introduction -- (mis) representing animal s: the limits and possibilities of representation -- What do we want from talking animals? : reflections on literary representations of animal voices and minds / Karla Armbruster -- Our animals, ourselves : representing animal minds in Timothy and the White Bone / Ryan Hediger -- Investigations of a dog, by a dog : between anthropocentrism and canine-centrism / Naama Harel -- Animals in human traditions -- With dogs and lions as witnesses : speaking animals in the history of Christianity / Laura Hobgood-Oster -- The speaking animal : non-human voices in comics / Lisa Brown -- Who'll let the dogs in? : animals, authorship, and the library catalog / Nancy Babb -- Animal self, human self -- Mistresses as masters : voicing female power through the subject animal in two nineteenth-century animal autobiographies / Monica Flegel -- Catster.com : creating feline identities online / Jennifer L. Schally and Stephen R. Couch -- Identity, community and grief : the role of bunspace in human and rabbit lives / Margo DeMello -- Interspecies communication and connection -- Talking dogs, companion capital, and the limits of bio-political fitness / Merit Anglin -- If we could talk to the animals : on changing the (post) human subject / Kathy Rudy -- Speaking and knowing: accessing animal subjectivity -- The power of testimony : the speaking animal's plea for understanding in a selection of eighteenth-century British poetry / Anne Milne -- "Straight from the horse's mouth" : equine memoirs and autobiographies / Marion Copeland -- First friend, first words : speaking of/to talking dogs / Jill Morstad -- The ethics and value of speaking for animals -- Horse talk : horses and human(e) discourses / Natalie Corinne Hansen -- Speaking for dogs : the role of dog biographies in improving canine welfare in Bangkok, thailand / Nikki Savvides -- The elephant letters : the story of Billy and Kani / G.A. Bradshaw -- Contributors.
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