CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction: Creaturely Bodies

1.  THE INHUMANITY OF LITERATURE

1.  Humanity Unraveled, Humanity Regained:
The Holocaust and the Discourse of Species

2.  Neanderthal Poetics in William Golding’s The Inheritors

3.  The Indignities of Species in Marie Darrieussecq’s Pig Tales

2.  THE INHUMANITY OF FILM

4.  Cine-Zoos

5.  Scientific Surrealism in the Films of Georges Franju and Frederick Wiseman

6.  Werner Herzog’s Creaturely Poetics

Conclusion: Animal Saintliness

NOTES

WORKS CITED

INDEX