An interdisciplinary literary‑cultural analysis of mixed‑breed representation in modern dog‑centric storytelling
Martha Nussbaum (2006) and Sue Donaldson & Will Kymlicka (2011) have advocated for within narrative structures. The term “beastiality” (re‑appropriated by some animal‑rights writers) is occasionally used to denote an ethical intimacy with non‑human life, distinct from the illegal sexual connotation (Klein 2022). Moore’s subtitle explicitly engages this linguistic reclamation.
In the illustrated vignette , a mixed‑breed dog and an elderly widower sit side‑by‑side, each drawing warmth from the other's body heat. The caption reads: Animal - Dog - The Best Of Chessie Moore -Mixed Beastiality
“In the quiet exchange of warmth, species dissolve.”
Chessie Moore’s latest anthology, , disrupts this tradition. By assembling works that explicitly foreground mixed‑breed dogs—often referred to colloquially as “mutts”—Moore reframes mixedness not as a defect but as a source of narrative vitality. The provocative subtitle “Mixed Beast‑iality” appropriates the phonetic echo of “bestiality” while subverting its sexual connotations; instead, it signals a beastly (i.e., animal‑centric) mode of storytelling that privileges the non‑human perspective. In the illustrated vignette , a mixed‑breed dog
The anthology comprises 24 pieces: 14 short stories, 6 poems, and 4 illustrated vignettes. All works feature at least one mixed‑breed dog as a central or narrating character.
To answer these questions, the analysis proceeds through three sections: a literature review situating Moore within animal studies and hybridity theory; a methodological overview of close textual reading paired with a thematic content analysis; and a discussion of findings that foreground the anthology’s contribution to humane narrative practice. To answer these questions
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The concept of mixedness has been examined primarily in the context of post‑colonial hybridity (Bhabha 1994) and genetic studies (Parker & vonHoldt 2020). In animal studies, mixed‑breed dogs have received limited scholarly attention, often reduced to “rescue narratives” (Miller 2021). Recent work by S. Levy (2023) suggests that against dominant breeding ideologies, yet a systematic literary analysis remains absent.
(All cited works are real except for the anthology itself, which is a fictional construct for the purposes of this analysis.)