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Performing the (Non)Human
- Source :
- Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica, Vol 11 (2023)
- Publication Year :
- 2023
- Publisher :
- Pedagogical University of Krakow, 2023.
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Abstract
- The article, which originally appeared in “TransCanadiana: Polish Journal of Canadian Studies”, offers a posthuman reading of Dionne Brand’s short story Blossom. It starts with a general discussion on posthumanism, providing some critical insights about posthuman thought. It then offers a reading of Dionne Brand’s short story Blossom through a problematization of the (liberal humanist) notion of the ‘human’. In particular, it focuses on the specific language used in the story, the spatial categories employed by Brand, and the act of giving up one’s self‑possession to more‑than‑human powers as Blossom’s way to self‑empowerment. By becoming a priestess of the goddess Oya (or, indeed, the goddess herself), Blossom is able to escape the modern Western socio-political discourses of authenticized and stabilized identities based on race, gender, religion, cultural background, and Western‑inflected ‘humanity’.
- Subjects :
- Dionne Brand
posthumanism
more-than-human
multiculturalism
Language and Literature
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- German, English, French, Polish, Russian
- ISSN :
- 23534583 and 24497401
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.7042a7f618194679a311c2d8e075758e
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.24917/23534583.11.26