Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is continually countered in the very texts that ostensibly work to this end.

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Amy Ratelle is currently the Research Coordinator for the Semaphore Research Cluster on Mobile and Pervasive Computing, at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is also a Co-Investigator at Ryerson University's Children's Literature Archive. She has degrees in Film Studies from Ryerson University (BFA), and Carleton University (MA).

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Introduction 1. Animal Virtues, Values and Rights 2. Contact Zones, Becoming, and the Wild Animal Body 3. Ethics and Edibility 4. Science, Species and Subjectivity 5. Performance and Personhood in Free Willy and Dolphin Tale Conclusion End Notes Works Cited Index