Titlebook: Reading Slaughter; Abattoir Fictions, S Sune Borkfelt Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to

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Ruralities and the Abattoir,be imagined as rural in what Charles Taylor has called the ‘social imaginary’. The chapter addresses this theme through two contemporary yet completely different texts, John Berger’s ‘A Question of Place’ (1979) and Swiss author Beat Sterchi’s . (1983), which each in their own way bring tensions sur

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Who Slaughters and Who Consumes? On Butcher(ing) Identities, in relation to, slaughterhouses, which creates important questions in relation to literary narratives about slaughterhouses as well as who writes these narratives in the first place. In addition, abattoirs are also places of work that potentially carry social stigma. In other words, slaughterhouses

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Dark Spaces: The Horrific Slaughterhouse,d as both gruesome and disgusting, the slaughterhouses in horror fiction come to represent the fear of the violent deviance usually kept within the closed space of the abattoir, which leaks into our world through works such as Matthew Stokoe’s . (1997) or Conrad Williams’ . (2007). This fear of the

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Dark Spaces: The Horrific Slaughterhouse,horrific abattoir in our midst becomes apparent not least as its violence toward nonhuman animals becomes violence toward humans, and as the genre exploits uneasiness surrounding slaughter and meat in depictions of humans becoming meat such as Clive Barker’s ‘The Midnight Meat Train’ (1984), Michel Faber’s . (2000), and Joseph D’Lacey’s . (2008).

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Book 2022ers on abattoir fictions in relation to narrative empathy, anthropomorphism, urban spaces, rural spaces, human identities and horror fiction, Sune Borkfelt contributes to debates in literary animal studies, human-animal studies and beyond..

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Introduction: Fleshing Out Invisibilities,n the real world can become . as its perceived neutrality and liminality are eroded and it is (re)connected with values, emotions, and living presences. The chapter ends with a brief description of the other chapters of the book.

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Flesh of the City: Slaughterhouses and the Urban,ferent contexts and approaches of these authors, emerge slaughterhouse fictions that at once differ from each other in significant ways and speak to the development of both the modern city and the modern abattoir.

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Ruralities and the Abattoir,vel is set in an abattoir that, despite being placed on the outskirts of a city, is undeniably tied to the countryside through the novel’s plot and structure. The chapter argues that both texts, through their different approaches, end up simultaneously questioning and drawing upon conventional ideas of rurality in the social imaginary.