ABSTRACT This autoethnographic essay examines how life writing can engage with environmental accountability and human and animal relationships through the material and symbolic presence of the figurine. It considers the narrative potential of encounters with such objects in the light of ecological crisis, climate change and mass extinction, how this interrupts the aesthetics of cute and kitsch, and connects to literary, ecological, and philosophical narratives. Informed by posthumanism and vital materialism, this essay uses a ceramic figurine of an otter to investigate how life writing might address environmental crisis through everyday domestic details and encounters.

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陶瓷动物园：用动物代表写作

摘要 这篇自述民族志文章探讨了生活写作如何通过小雕像的材料和象征性存在来处理环境责任以及人类和动物的关系。它从生态危机、气候变化和大规模灭绝的角度考虑了与此类物体相遇的叙事潜力，以及这如何打断可爱和媚俗的美学，并与文学、生态和哲学叙事联系起来。受后人文主义和生命唯物主义的启发，这篇文章使用水獭的陶瓷小雕像来研究生活写作如何通过日常家庭细节和遭遇来解决环境危机。