Water, gender, and modern science in the Steven Universe animation

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ID12689876
AutoresAndré Vasques Vital (0000-0002-6959-3196, Program in Society, Technology and Environment, University Center of Anápolis, Anapolis, Brazil, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen20
Número8
Páginas1144-1158
Fecha de publicación2019-09-09
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Media Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1468-0777 • E-ISSN: 1471-5902
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14680777.2019.1662466
OpenAlexW2972768911
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas10

This essay analyses the relationships between the characters Peridot and Lapis Lazuli, who symbolize the scientist and the waters, respectively, in the animated series Steven Universe. Steven Universe is a fantasy/science fiction animated series produced by Cartoon Network, which has been drawing attention by challenging various normative gender patterns through main characters who possess queer characteristics. This essay suggests that the adventures and misadventures of Peridot and Lapis Lazuli, given their respective gender stereotypes, are a metaphor for the history of relations between scientists and waters, culminating in a critique of the culture-nature dichotomy that permeates modern thinking. This critique occurs through the existential mismatch between the two characters and is maintained in the narrative through three distinct phases. In these phases, Peridot—with her desire to control and order the world—is confronted by Lapis Lazuli’s aquatic essence, which is perpetually transient, dissolutive, and contingent

Adventure · Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Fantasy · Literature · Metaphor · Narrative · Normative · Queer · Sociology · Storytelling · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction

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