Hoult’s The Animal Other in Narratives of Conquest complicates, transforms, and illuminates the human experience by recognizing the animal as subject, not as commodity or marginal Other. Her wide-ranging study provides scholars of liminal encounters with valuable insights into consciousness, trauma, and self-fashioning across multiple genres and geographies.

Elissa De Falco, SUNY Maritime College

“In a time where we are re-examining our histories and analyzing the human imprint on our world, Stacy Hoult’s book shines a welcome light on the representation of nonhuman animals within diverse examples of literature and film depicting the Conquest of the Americas. A refreshing perspective that draws on post-colonial theory, ecocriticism, animal studies, and Freudian literary criticism, this book provides an excellent addition to the scholarship in these areas while at the same time inviting readers to consider our own relationships with the nonhuman species that share our world.”

Jody L. Ballah, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College