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The Best of Chessie Moore: Mixed “Beast‑iality” in Contemporary Canine Narrative

An interdisciplinary literary‑cultural analysis of mixed‑breed representation in modern dog‑centric storytelling

5.2 Ethical Implications

1. Close Reading – Each piece was examined for narrative voice, point‑of‑view, and linguistic markers that attribute agency to the animal.
2. Thematic Coding – Using NVivo, passages were coded under the following provisional themes: Hybrid Identity, Resistance to Pedigree Norms, Companionship as Mutuality, and Speculative Ecologies.
3. Comparative Mapping – Findings were juxtaposed with existing scholarship on pure‑breed narratives (Baker 2014; Hines 2019) to highlight divergences.

2. Literature Review

• Bhabha, H. K. (1994). The Location of Culture. Routledge.
• Baker, C. M. (2014). Dogs in Literature: From Homer to the Present. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Donaldson, S., & Kymlicka, W. (2011). Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights. Oxford University Press.
• Hines, J. (2019). “Companion Animals as Post‑Human Mediators.” Journal of Literary Animals 12(3), 45‑62.
• Klein, R. (2022). “Re‑appropriating ‘Beast‑iality’: Language, Ethics, and the Non‑Human Other.” Ethics & Language 8(2), 101‑119.
• Levy, S. (2023). “Hybrid Bodies, Hybrid Narratives: The Politics of Mixed‑Breed Dogs.” Animal Studies Quarterly 7(1), 22‑39.
• Miller, D. (2021). Rescue Narratives and the Moral Imagination. University Press of New England.
• Nussbaum, M. (2006). Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership. Harvard University Press.
• Parker, H. G., & vonHoldt, B. M. (2020). “Genomics of Domestic Dog Breeds.” Nature Genetics 52, 1‑12.

Such passages destabilize the notion of a singular, pure identity, aligning with Bhabha’s “third space” where new meaning emerges. Animal - Dog - The Best Of Chessie Moore -Mixed Beastiality

4.4 Speculative Ecologies