- Tytuł:
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Dehumanizing Discourses: Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy on Post-Humans
Dehumanizujące dyskursy. Trylogia MaddAddam Margaret Atwood o post-ludziach - Autorzy:
- Poręba, Izabela
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/32062498.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2023
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
- Tematy:
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Margaret Atwood
istoty nie-ludzkie
postkolonializm
dzieciństwo
MaddAddam
animalizacja - Opis:
- This paper examines four discursive strategies: colonizing, animalizing, infantalizing and (plant) vegetative that characters in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy use to name the Crakers, post-humans with modified DNA structure. In discussing them, I expose a dehumanizing effect this seemingly neutral processes of naming and describing have. The interpretative findings discussed in this paper constitute a response to largely anthropocentrically oriented extensive criticism on Atwood’s writing. By questioning the neutrality of the narrative through a postcolonial reading of the trilogy, I argue that MaddAddam challenges the divisions between human and non-human. The paper investigates whether these dehumanizing discursive tactics of animalization, colonization, infantilism or vegetation, which are fundamentally oppressive, can become a means of resistance.
- Źródło:
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Przestrzenie Teorii; 2023, 39; 195-219
2450-5765 - Pojawia się w:
- Przestrzenie Teorii
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki