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‘All of Earth’s varied habitats, species, and organisms are bound up in an integral whole,’ not unlike a cell surrounded by a protective membrane within which there is a constant exchange of energy and materials. We are all, Scott Russell Sanders reminds us, ‘part of that flow’ (2016, p. 26). Animal studies is interdisciplinary and diverse. Literary animal studies reminds us that the arts have their roots in and the power to rekindle the earliest responses indigenous creatures had to ‘the ancestral environment of all living things,’ a response much needed in this time and place (Wilson 2016, p. 211).
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Copeland, M. (2017). Magic Wells, the Stream and the Flow: The Promise of Literary Animal Studies. In: Woodward, W., McHugh, S. (eds) Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, and the Arts. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56874-4_9
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