Posthumanism in ecofeminist literature
Transgressions in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22355332 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Gresil Kahambing (0000-0002-4258-0563, University of Macau, corresponding author), Virgilio Rivas (Polytechnic University of the Philippines), Virgilio A Rivas (0000-0002-6728-8622) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33-40 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Techno Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2664-3294 • E-ISSN: 2667-3614 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.techum.2024.10.003 |
| OpenAlex | W4404001575 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
This paper establishes a critical place of conversation between an ecofeminist type of contravening patriarchal and masculine-centered discourse and posthumanist attempts to problematize boundary-setting systems assembled around the conceit of speciesism and human privilege. Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Klara and the Sun (2021) supplies this conversational groundwork centered around the novel's main protagonist, Klara, an Artificial Friend (AF). The literary presence of Klara is designed to infract a conventional social space (dominated by humans), technically eroding the human/non-human and nature/culture duality. Such erosion implies a transgression, portrayed in posthuman studies as a transcendence of the human and in ecofeminist studies as a deconstruction of the often-oppressive essentialist relationships of women and the environment. Transgression is the boundary-crossing mediation among actants. The novel permits us to see multivalent frames, each thematizing a posthuman future in terms of gender differences, the posthuman/human intricate gravitation towards loneliness, and, most of all, love. Through the examination of this work, an interrogation of the technological trajectory of the near future also suggests repositioning the role of posthumans concerning their environments
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Feminism · Literature · Posthumanism · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Themes in Literature Analysis · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |