Title
Hunting Out Latour’s Collective in Leigh and Hemingway: Nonhuman Presence in The Hunter and The Old Man and the Sea
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Draws on Bruno Latour’s theories of the ecological collective in his discussion of the interrelatedness of the human and nonhuman found in The Old Man and the Sea and Julia Leigh’s 1999 novel on the hunting of the last Tasmanian tiger. Espiner argues that both complicate the notion of the anthropocentric hunter by depicting an open and unpredictable environment in which human free will is limited and nonhuman animals (e.g. fish, sharks) exhibit agency.
Published in
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Volume
26
Issue
1
Date
Winter 2019
Pages
111-124
COinS
Citation
Espiner, Seonaid. “Hunting Out Latour’s Collective in Leigh and Hemingway: Nonhuman Presence in The Hunter and The Old Man and the Sea.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 26, no. 1 (Winter 2019): 111-24.