The inescapability of speciesism : the moral consideration of animals in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

The inescapability of speciesism : the moral consideration of animals in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

This thesis will then look at how extending equal moral consideration to animals challenges the anthropocentric view of speciesism, which is used to justify harm done towards animals. It will explore how the man and animal binary is constructed in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2005) and Yann Marte...

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Main Author: Francisco, Kimberly Ashleigh
Other Authors: Sim Wai Chew
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2015
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-656402019-12-10T14:27:06Z The inescapability of speciesism : the moral consideration of animals in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi Francisco, Kimberly Ashleigh Sim Wai Chew School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Language::English This thesis will then look at how extending equal moral consideration to animals challenges the anthropocentric view of speciesism, which is used to justify harm done towards animals. It will explore how the man and animal binary is constructed in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2005) and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi (2012) using an ecocritical lens. Bachelor of Arts 2015-11-30T08:57:21Z 2015-11-30T08:57:21Z 2015 2015 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/65640 en Nanyang Technological University 40 p. application/pdf
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The inescapability of speciesism : the moral consideration of animals in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi
description This thesis will then look at how extending equal moral consideration to animals challenges the anthropocentric view of speciesism, which is used to justify harm done towards animals. It will explore how the man and animal binary is constructed in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2005) and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi (2012) using an ecocritical lens.
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author Francisco, Kimberly Ashleigh
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title The inescapability of speciesism : the moral consideration of animals in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi
title_short The inescapability of speciesism : the moral consideration of animals in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi
title_full The inescapability of speciesism : the moral consideration of animals in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi
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