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This article centres on the literary representation of the pregnant body in the short story  Skördebrev  by Helena Granström. The short story interlocks the narration of the pregnant experience with narration from the perspective of a dairy cow on a farm, thus negotiating the dominating discourses surrounding farmed animals and human pregnancy. The article investigates these matters by discussing the relations between the characters, the farmed animals and the farmed landscape as portrayed in the short story, and in doing this, examines what the relations convey about the portrayal of human, non-human and pregnant corporeality and identity in the text. It does this using Stacy Alaimo’s term  trans-corporeality , Karen Barad’s notions of intra-action and Ann-Sofie Lönngren’s adaption of this theory to literary analysis.

Of Pregnancy and Dairy Cows: Entanglements of Materiality, Pregnancy and the Farmed Animal in Helena Granström’s ”Skördebrev”