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The After Coetzee Project is calling for submissions of short fiction that engages with animal subjects. The Project states that it is picking up where JM Coetzee left off after he “prepared the ground for the animal subject to reemerge in fiction” with books like Disgrace, The Lives of Animals and Elizabeth Costello.
The anthology is being put together by A Marie Houser who has received a Culture & Animals Foundation grant for the project. Houser is looking for “stories that explore the worlds animals inhabit; depict non-dominion-based relationships between humans and nonhuman animals; deflate speciesist paradigms; enact the dismantlement of technologies of slaughter and confinement” and the guidelines state that “all kinds of fictional approaches are welcome, especially variants of weird fiction hybrid narratives”.
The deadline for submissions is 1 December.
Until Disgrace, The Lives of Animals, and Elizabeth Costello and other works by J.M. Coetzee, nonhuman animals figured in contemporary fiction primarily as metaphor, allegory, and objects of blood sport. Their worlds — their lives — had been elided. Coetzee’s work prepared the ground for the animal subject to reemerge in fiction*. The After Coetzee Project picks up from there.
The After Coetzee Project seeks short story submissions of up to twenty-five double-spaced pages for a print anthology. We seek stories that explore the worlds animals inhabit; depict non-dominion-based relationships between humans and nonhuman animals; deflate speciesist paradigms; enact the dismantlement of technologies of slaughter and confinement; and etc. So many possibilities exist for reimagining and reinviting animals back into the fictional space.
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- Disgrace by JM Coetzee
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- Elizabeth Costello by JM Coetzee
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- The Lives of Animals by J M Coetzee
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- The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee
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