"The trace beyond the human" : exploring nonhuman otherness and human exceptionalism in contemporary and popular literatures

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dc.contributor.authorRuzek, Jessica
dc.contributor.supervisorBenzon, Kiki
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-03T20:47:07Z
dc.date.available2014-10-03T20:47:07Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.description.abstractCentral to this examination is the questioning of the “culturally normal fantasy” (Haraway 267) of humanity’s pre-eminence in the current age known as the Anthropocene through the investigation of representations of humanity and non-humanity in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Alan Moore’s Saga of the Swamp Thing, and Jeff Lemire’s Animal Man. These works question the alleged centrality of humanity, while offering new configurations with which to represent and understand the human in relation to the planet and its nonhuman inhabitants. Foundational to this interrogation of the human is the theoretical framework of posthumanism and ecocriticism, which see human exceptionalism as the discourse that enables the systemic destruction of the planet’s ecology and the exploitation of--and cruelty towards--nonhuman animals. Contemporary literatures, especially those which employ apocalypticism, are best able to represent and critique the practices which currently threaten the planet and its inhabitants.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/3516
dc.language.isoen_CAen_US
dc.proquest.subject0401en_US
dc.proquest.subject0591en_US
dc.proquest.subject0352en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Englishen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectposthumanismen_US
dc.subjectecocriticismen_US
dc.subjectnonhumanen_US
dc.subjectanthropocentrismen_US
dc.subjecthuman exceptionalismen_US
dc.subjectMargaret Atwooden_US
dc.subjectCormac McCarthyen_US
dc.subjectAlan Mooreen_US
dc.subjectJeff Lemireen_US
dc.subjectSwamp Thingen_US
dc.subjectAnimal Manen_US
dc.subjectThe Roaden_US
dc.subjectOryx and Crakeen_US
dc.subjectapocalypseen_US
dc.subjectdystopianen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary literatureen_US
dc.title"The trace beyond the human" : exploring nonhuman otherness and human exceptionalism in contemporary and popular literaturesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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