Buch, Englisch, 595 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm
Reihe: ISSN
Writing Between ‘the Human’ and ‘the Animal’ in the MaddAddam Trilogy
Buch, Englisch, 595 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm
Reihe: ISSN
ISBN: 978-3-11-914738-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
The definitional boundaries of “the human” have been debated since Aristotle’s zoological theories on the , which claimed humans uniquely possess rational souls and are, therefore exceptional to “animals” and plants. While contemporary sciences bely this hierarchy, Euro-American societies and cultures hold it to be true. enters this long-running debate through a detailed analysis of Atwood’s speculative trilogy. Using an innovative framework of Animal Studies, posthumanism, Genettian narratology, and Anishinaabe ontologies, language systems, and storying techniques, argues that the trilogy is a complex dramatization of humanity’s inherent hybridity; rather than “humans” and/or “animals,” the trilogy elucidates through content and form that “we” are inherently composite individuals. Consequently, offers a vital contribution to Atwoodian Studies in its exploration of Atwood’s career-long interest in genre blurring, repetition and refraction, and the “third thing,” what she calls a productive escape from dangerous binaries. Through subtle manipulation of narrative, Atwood’s trilogy offers a homology with the profound relations forming the extradiegetic world.
