Naslov
Wording Mute Posthumanism in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book

Autori
Polak, Iva

Izvornik
Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature (2596-1837) 36 (2022), 1; 107-121

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

Ključne riječi
Alexis Wright, The Swan Book, disability studies, posthumanism

Sažetak
Wright’s so-called total novel The Swan Book (2013), focalized through oftentimes-untagged free direct and indirect style, constructs Oblivia and the virus in her brain as the novel’s narrator(s), enabling her to fill her speechless world with words and meaning. As a result, this mute narrator becomes one of the most unreliable but equally one of the most honest, life-affirming storytellers in contemporary fiction. As the paper argues, the universe of Oblivia’s unspoken words reveals her ability to communicate with the nonhuman and other-than-human, offering readers who are receptive a story about what it means to be posthuman in a world that defies posthumanism.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Književnost

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