The Emancipation of the Animal: A Perspective on Animal Studies in Romanian Children’s Literature Over the Last Half-Century.

This paper is part of a broader research project that examines the morphology of specific tropes in Romanian children’s literature over the past fifty years and aims to rethink, within a posthuman framework, the role of the anthropomorphized character for young readers. In this endeavor, a brief his...

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Published in:Caietele Echinox Vol. 50; pp. 209 - 227
Main Author: Nagy, Andreea-Georgiana
Format: Article
Published: Echinox Cultural Foundation 2026
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        Anthropomorphism
        Posthumanism
        Romanian literature
        Human-animal studies
        Censorship
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        Animal Studies
        Children’s Literature
        Geocriticism
        Metacriticism
        Paraliterature Studies
        World Literature Studies
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