Published: 2022-02-14

Biographies of pigs in the autobiographies of their human friends

Hanna Jaxa-Rożen Logo ORCID , Michał Witek Logo ORCID

Abstract

In his writings, Éric Baratay advances that the chronicles of people should be supplemented with animal histories as he stands by the side of non-human animals and supports attempts to free history from its solely anthropocentric perspective. Animals are not capable of speaking any human language, they cannot record their experiences in writing / words, which makes them unable to create the great animal history. However, they have human friends. Therefore, the indirect approach, meeting to the goal intended by Baratay halfway, may rely on the stories about animals, their biographies written in the personal notes. The article presents the stories of pigs recorded in the autobiographies and memoirs of Antonina Żabińska, Dorota Sumińska, and Sy Montgomery, which are contributions to the history of animals.

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Jaxa-Rożen, H., & Witek, M. (2022). Biographies of pigs in the autobiographies of their human friends. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (2 (10), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2022.10.02

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No. 2 (10) (2022)
Published: 2022-12-30


ISSN: 2719-2687
eISSN: 2451-3849
Ikona DOI 10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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