T.C. Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth and the Posthumanization of Readers

This essay analyses how T.C. Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth represents an embodied character embedded in material and social environments (zoe-life) processing trauma using Braidotti’s affirmative ethics. It argues that readers experience a loss of individual agency instrumental to becoming posthuman. It connects current discussions on climate change and Anthropocene thinking to critical posthumanism in relation to shifting readers' subjectivities

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Anthropocene · Character (mathematics) · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Posthuman · Posthumanism · Psychoanalysis · Relation (database) · Social science · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Philosophy · Psychology