Multispecies communication, Listening to non-human animals through art, literature, cinema

This thesis proposes the possibility of a (public) transmission of interspecies language through art forms. The paper is divided into five chapters and will be conducted under the lens of eco-feminist studies, which are fundamental to the deconstruction of the anthropocentric paradigm. -The first chapter will reconstruct the non-human-human divide from the 15th century to the present day, -The second chapter will provide the critical framwork of this thesis, trough an overview of feminist movments which are strongly linked to animals rights struggle -The third chapter will focus on language and highlight how its perception as purely human can be dismissed through alternative proposals and developments. -The fourth chapter will be a case study on the language of some cetaceans, flanked by an echo-feminist analysis of Undrowned by Alexis Gumbs. -The fifth and final chapter will analyse a film by Massimo d'Anolfi and Martina Parenti and an art exhibition at the Venice Biennale by Carlos Casas, followed by author interviews intended as artistic demonstrations of interspecies communication