Good Night, Zoo: a Children's Guide to Humanimal Spaces
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Published in Real Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of World, Ulrich Gehmann and Martin Reiche, eds.
Children’s books interpellate their readers and listeners into a vision of nature in which boundaries and dualities begin to shudder and collapse. Braverman’s essay focuses on Peggy Rathmann’s story Good Night, Gorilla to show how images of city and wilderness, captivity and freedom, home and zoo, and human and nonhuman animality can become fluid, thereby opening up possibilities for other, novel spaces to emerge. This book’s liminal scheme sets up the stage for the surprising hybrids that can occur when species meet.
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Transcript-Verlag
City
Bielefeld
ISBN
978-3-8376-2608-7
First Page
159
Last Page
175
Keywords
zoo, city, children's fiction, hybrids and chimera, liminality, captive and wild, spaces of utopia and dystopia
Disciplines
Geography | Law
Recommended Citation
Irus Braverman, Good Night, Zoo: a Children's Guide to Humanimal Spaces in Real Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of World 159 (Ulrich Gehmann and Martin Reich, ed., Transcript-Verlag 2014)
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