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humanimalia-10929	McHugh, Susan	The Rise of Regional Creatures in Literary Animal Studies: Review of Charis Olszok, The Libyan Novel: Humans, Animals and the Poetics of Vulnerability	2022	7	.pdf	application/pdf	2289	55	25	Scholars in literary animal studies should take note here that Olszok thereby identifies a bridge between positions predominantly characterized as oppositional in Euro-American contexts: on the one hand, that which emphasizes the vulnerability of the human as a creaturely state, which is typified by Eric Santner’s On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Ben- jamin, Sebald (2006) and relies heavily on Giorgio Agamben’s reading of Michel Foucault’s biopolitics; and on the other hand Anat Pick’s exemplary framing of the creaturely in terms of the precarity shared by humans and other animals in Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film (2011), drawn primarily through the mystical philosophy of Simone Weil. In this respect, Olszok’s attention to the human-historical signifi- cance in detailed close readings of scenes featuring humans, animals, and human–animal relationships comes arguably at the expense of developing the theoretical scaffolding that would demonstrate the significance of them for literary animal studies.	cache/humanimalia-10929.pdf	txt/humanimalia-10929.txt