Journalartikel

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2021

Seiten: 53-73

Zeitschrift: SubStance

Bandnummer: 50

Heftnummer: 3

ISSN: 0049-2426

eISSN: 1527-2095

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Abstract: 
In this article, I argue that Adam Roberts' Bete (2014) requires a refinement of the category of 'nonhuman narration,' as its transspecies narrator's body evades conventional categories. I conceive her cyborg-like, nonhuman-technology/human hybrid being as 'postanimal'-a signifier setting aside a cemented human-animal divide. Hence emerging at the intersection of econarratological and critical animal studies scholarship, my argument works towards a 'postanimalist' mode of critique (Stanescu and Twine). Portraying how this 'postanimal narration' puts the anthropomorphic bias of narrative on display, I question whether a 'postanimalist' rather than a post-anthropocentric narrative stance is achieved.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Bauer, L. (2021) "Four Legs in the Evening": Postanimal Narration in Adam Roberts' Bete (2014), SubStance, 50(3), pp. 53-73

APA-Zitierstil: Bauer, L. (2021). "Four Legs in the Evening": Postanimal Narration in Adam Roberts' Bete (2014). SubStance. 50(3), 53-73.