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dc.contributor.authorPeterson, Audrey
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-16T19:12:13Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-22T14:32:26Z
dc.date.available2016-05-16T19:12:13Z
dc.date.available2020-06-22T14:32:26Z
dc.date.issued2016-05
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/720
dc.description.abstract"Both the genre of VanderMeer’s trilogy and the theme of the posthuman operate in a chiasmic relationship to convey a clear teaching that evokes a powerful message about humanity, posthumanity, and the future of the planet. I argue that the Southern Reach trilogy illustrates the duality of the term posthumanism: Characters exceed what it means to be human in a biological sense, and in an ethical sense, certain characters become posthuman in that they accept a mode of thinking that does not invariably place the human at the center. My argument outlines two very different ways of using the term posthuman, yet also illustrates the commonalities between each of my applications, thus creating a means of applying the posthuman lens as a tool for approaching literary texts."en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects::Literatureen_US
dc.subjectPosthumanismen_US
dc.subjectVegetarianen_US
dc.subjectEcofeminismen_US
dc.subjectJeff VanderMeer - Annihilationen_US
dc.subjectJeff VanderMeer - Authorityen_US
dc.subjectJeff VanderMeer - Acceptanceen_US
dc.titlePosthumanism and compassion in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy: a vegetarian, ecofeminist approachen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
refterms.dateFOA2020-06-22T14:32:26Z
dc.description.institutionSUNY College at New Paltz
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