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• Title:
  Dehumanizing Discourses: Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy on Post-Humans
• Creator:
  Poręba, Izabela
• Description:
  This paper examines four discursive strategies: colonizing, animalizing, infantalizing and (plant) vegetative that characters in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy use to name the Crakers, post-humans with modified DNA structure. In discussing them, I expose a dehumanizing effect this seemingly neutral processes of naming and describing have. The interpretative findings discussed in this paper constitute a response to largely anthropocentrically oriented extensive criticism on Atwood’s writing. By questioning the neutrality of the narrative through a postcolonial reading of the trilogy, I argue that MaddAddam challenges the divisions between human and non-human. The paper investigates whether these dehumanizing discursive tactics of animalization, colonization, infantilism or vegetation, which are fundamentally oppressive, can become a means of resistance.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 Izabela Poręba
• Date:
  2023.12.29
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Przestrzenie Teorii; No. 39 (2023); 195-219;
  Przestrzenie Teorii; Nr 39 (2023); 195-219;
  2450-5765;
  1644-6763
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pt/article/view/41198/34595
• Subject:
  Margaret Atwood;
  istoty nie-ludzkie;
  postkolonializm;
  dzieciństwo;
  MaddAddam;
  animalizacja
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pt/article/view/41198
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text