Xenofiction
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Xenofiction is a niche genre of speculative fiction centered on stories told from the viewpoint of non-human characters, particularly animal, often focusing heavily on the effects of the characters' s
Black Beauty, a novel written from the perspective of a horse, is considered one of the earliest examples of xenofiction.
Anthropomorphism
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Anthropomorphism is the ascribing of human personality, appearance, conduct, cognition, or other attributes to non-human entities, often including non-human animals. In fiction and folklore, it is spe
Xenofiction
…of humans. The genre is closely associated with adventure fiction and is common in children's literature. Xenofiction stories often make use of "soft" anthropomorphism that retains most of the characters' animalness, ecological themes, and invented non-human vocabulary. Well-known examples of the genre include The…
The 35,000 to 40,000 year-old Löwenmensch figurine
Anthropomorphic "pebble" figures from the 7th millennium BC
From the Panchatantra: Rabbit fools Elephant by showing the reflection of the moon.
From The Emperor's Rout (1831)