Naslov
Xenoflesh: A Zoēpoetics of Meat

Autori
Ryle, Simon

Izvornik
Boundary 2-an international journal of literature and culture (0190-3659) 47 (2020), 4; 63-99

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
flesh ; biopolitics ; meat ; poetics ; the uncanny

Sažetak
This essay explores three recent celebrated novels that are concerned with the consumption of meat: Joseph D’Lacey’s Meat, J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello, and Han Kang’s The Vegetarian. The essay develops the critical terms xenoflesh, zoē poetics, and carnojectivity in order to further understanding of these novels and their wider bearing on human-animal relations. Building from the classical distinction between bios and zoē (political and “bare life”) described by Giorgio Agamben, this essay theorizes an occluded flesh that is violently excluded from discourse: xenoflesh. Industrial farming and its product, meat, is one of the most fundamental ways of enforcing this division of the flesh across modernity. As my essay explores, D’Lacey’s, Coetzee’s, and Han’s novels forge a new zoē poetics: an ethical, speculative, and ecological aesthetics that investigates how the meat is one of the most deeply inscribed modes of silencing the uncanny call of xenoflesh.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti, Književnost

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