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This study highlights the pioneering role of Monique-Alika Watteau in the anti-speciesist critique of anthropocentrism shaping our relation to the animal world, through the analysis of two central works of her fantastic fiction: La nuit aux yeux de bête (1956) and L’ange à fourrure (1958). The corpus also includes the essays Nous sommes deux dans l’arche (1975) and Quand les singes hurleurs se tairont (1976), in which the Belgian Francophone author reflects on the ethological experiment she conducted with her second husband Scott Lindbergh while raising primates. Informed by Anne Simon’s and Pierre Schoentjes’s zoopoetic approaches, our discussion focuses on the narrative role of animals as helpers, the positive value of animal metamorphosis, and the importance of exchanges of gaze between humans and beasts. The impact of Bernard Heuvelmans’s cryptozoological research on Watteau’s plea for the animal cause is also underscored.

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Défense et illustration de la cause animale dans l’œuvre de Monique-Alika Watteau à la lumière de la zoopoétique

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    2026年

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  • Isabelle Moreels

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This study highlights the pioneering role of Monique-Alika Watteau in the anti-speciesist critique of anthropocentrism shaping our relation to the animal world, through the analysis of two central works of her fantastic fiction: La nuit aux yeux de bête (1956) and L’ange à fourrure (1958). The corpus also includes the essays Nous sommes deux dans l’arche (1975) and Quand les singes hurleurs se tairont (1976), in which the Belgian Francophone author reflects on the ethological experiment she conducted with her second husband Scott Lindbergh while raising primates. Informed by Anne Simon’s and Pierre Schoentjes’s zoopoetic approaches, our discussion focuses on the narrative role of animals as helpers, the positive value of animal metamorphosis, and the importance of exchanges of gaze between humans and beasts. The impact of Bernard Heuvelmans’s cryptozoological research on Watteau’s plea for the animal cause is also underscored.