Poks

Decolonial Animal Ethics in Linda Hogan’s Poetry and Prose is a plea for an urgent redefinition of human-animal relations on the basis of nonanthropocentric animal ethic embraced by premodern Indigenous communities but depreciated by coloniality.

Malgorzata Poks is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies, Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She received her PhD in Literary Studies from Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. She is the author of Thomas Merton and Latin America: A Consonance of Voices (Winner of the International Thomas Merton Award) and Kobieta, która czuwa nad światem (2021), a translation of Linda Hogan’s A Woman Who Watches Over the World.