Kafka's creatures : animals, hybrids, and other fantastic beings / edited by Marc Lucht and Donna Yarri.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Marc Lucht -- Kafka's hybrids: thinking animals and mirrored humans / Margot Norris --"Czechs, Jews and dogs not allowed": identity, boundary, and moral stance in Kafka's "A crossbreed" and "Jackals and Arabs" / Hadea Nell Krisberg -- De-allegorizing Kafka's ape: two animalistic contexts / Naama Harel -- Agents of the forgotten: animals as the vehicles of shame in Kafka / Tahia Thaddeus Reynaga -- The difficult task of being real: Odradek, the kittenlamb, and the historical individual / Eleanor Helms -- Consolation in your neighbor's fur: on Kafka's animal parables / Burkhard Mèuller -- Crowds, animality, and aesthetic language in Kafka's "Josephine" / Thomas H. Ford -- Performative emotion in Kafka's "Josephine, the singer; or, the mouse folks," and Freud's "The creative writer and daydreaming" / Andrea Baer -- The power of the look: Franz Kafka's "The cares of a family man" / Esther K. Bauer -- Four hands good, two hands bad / Tom Tyler -- Who identified the animal? Hybridity and body politics in Kafka's "The metamorphosis" and Amerika (The man who disappeared) / Melissa De Bruyker -- The portrait of an armor-plated sign: reimaging Samsa's exoskeleton / Dean Swinford -- Extraterrestrial Kafka: ahead to the graphic novel / Henry Sussman -- Index to Kafka's use of creatures in his writings / Donna Yarri.