Abstract
The five-part short story ‘All the Animals’ imagines an array of animals who feature in the life of a fictional human family over many years. The story is inspired by qualitative research into human-animal relationships in families with children in Lisbon, Portugal. ‘All the Animals’ aims to offer a fictional ‘thick description’ of multispecies families in a particular time and place, but also to provide a reflection on the role of storytelling in human-animal entanglements.
Keywords: fiction, storytelling, companion animals, pets, children, families, Portugal
How to Cite:
Tipper, B., (2024) “All the Animals: Short Fiction about Multispecies Families”, Animal Studies Journal 13(1), 137-158. doi: https://doi.org/10.14453/asj/v13i1.7
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