Narrating Entanglement

Cixous’ “Stigmata, or Job the Dog”

Bibliographic Data

ID20248367
AuthorsChristina Gerhardt (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume6
Issue4
Pages75
Publication date2017-10-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHumanities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/h6040075
OpenAlexW2763651830
LanguageEN
References cited18

Cixous’ “Stigmata, or Job the Dog” sits at the intersection of animal studies, autobiography, narrative voice, and philosophy. In this essay, I focus on narrative voice and trace its shifts—from human to entangled to animal. At the heart of this essay rest questions about what epistemological shifts are necessary vis-à-vis literature, such that an animal “voice” can be heard as a narrative voice. What would constitute a non-anthropocentric autobiography? What would constitute one narrated by, in this instance, an animal, specifically, a dog? In answering these questions, this essay at once grapples with philosophical-theoretical paradigms, with animal studies, with literary genre studies, and especially autobiography, and with narrative voice. I explore these questions with the aim of contributing to what Derrida has called zoopoetics and particularly to the study of non-anthropocentric autobiography

Aesthetics · Anthropocentrism · Art · Biography · Environmental ethics · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Stigmata · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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