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The conclusion recounts, in brief, the main aims of the collection: to establish veganism as a more complicated form of identity than is often supposed, to explore the intellectual resonances of its inconsistencies and complications, and to trace the ripples of the contemporary vegan moment across the humanities. By way of closing, Quinn and Westwood draw out three further questions raised by the essays, namely: its openness to painful or “wounding” knowledge, veganism’s performative nature, and the relation between vegan subjectivity and academic inquiry.
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See, for example, José Esteban Muñoz , Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, (New York, 2009), Lauren Berlant , Cruel Optimism (Durham, 2011), and Michael Snediker, Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions (Minneapolis, 2009).
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Gary Steiner, Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism (New York, 2013), p. 63.
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J. M. Coetzee. The Lives of Animals (Princeton, 2001), p. 69.
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Cora Diamond, “The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy,” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 2, no.1 (2009): 22.
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Sara Salih, “Vegans on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: From the Margins to the Centre, eds. Nik Taylor and Richard Twine (Abingdon, 2014), p. 55.
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Ibid., p. 60.
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Quinn, E., Westwood, B. (2018). Conclusion. In: Quinn, E., Westwood, B. (eds) Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73380-7_12
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