How to Fuck a Kraken
Cephalopod Sexualities and Nonbinary Genders in EBook Erotica
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6148722 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dagmar Van Engen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 121-151 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanimalia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2151-8645 • E-ISSN: 2151-8645 |
| Publisher | Humanimalia, Utrecht University (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.52537/humanimalia.9619 |
| OpenAlex | W4254779983 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Recent theories in posthumanism and animal studies have shown how race, gender, and sexuality help constitute the boundaries of the human and the animal as such. This essay argues that vertebrate land animals have most frequently formed the basis for racialized human-animal comparisons and the gender-sexual paradigms that underwrite them, and proposes instead a turn to invertebrate sea animals. In speculative fiction, these alien creatures offer a more complex interface for the racialized gender and sexual registers of human-animal imaginaries. In particular, erotic monster fiction by Alice Xavier recasts the meaning of animality as a figure of the erotic by transforming octopi and anemones into nonbinary-gendered objects of human desire. If animality is a crucial figure for how humans imagine animals in order to reimagine ourselves, then Alien Seed’s fantasies about invertebrate animals create more space for trans and nonbinary genders in ways deeply entangled with the nonhuman world
Aesthetics · Alien · Art · Creatures · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Monster · Natural (archaeology · Non-human · Posthuman · Posthumanism · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Philosophy
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Sensational Jellyfish
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My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix
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Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |