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This chapter centres around two key texts belonging to contemporary Greek cinema, starring ‘weird’, anthropomorphicised animals and animalised humans. Xenia (Panos H. Koutras, 2014) and O gios tis Sofias/Son of Sofia (Elina Psykou, 2017) are rites-of-passage narratives sensitively negotiating otherness via nonhuman animality while de-othering difference, various oppressed groups, and identities. The author argues for a redefinition of the term ‘queer’ (including queer animals) in relation to these texts, while employing the vocabulary and applying the concepts used within therian, furry, and otherkin communities. Textual analysis is supplemented with interviews with the human protagonists, directors, producers, and animal wranglers, to find out more about the films’ non-stuffed nonhumans.

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Furry-Tales: Narratives of Therianthropy and Queerness; the Cases of Panos H. Koutras and Elina Psykou

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    2025年

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  • Nikitas Fessas

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This chapter centres around two key texts belonging to contemporary Greek cinema, starring ‘weird’, anthropomorphicised animals and animalised humans. Xenia (Panos H. Koutras, 2014) and O gios tis Sofias/Son of Sofia (Elina Psykou, 2017) are rites-of-passage narratives sensitively negotiating otherness via nonhuman animality while de-othering difference, various oppressed groups, and identities. The author argues for a redefinition of the term ‘queer’ (including queer animals) in relation to these texts, while employing the vocabulary and applying the concepts used within therian, furry, and otherkin communities. Textual analysis is supplemented with interviews with the human protagonists, directors, producers, and animal wranglers, to find out more about the films’ non-stuffed nonhumans.