scholarly journals O ciałach, które się stają. Feminizm materialny w literaturze dla dzieci i młodzieży

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-272
Author(s):  
Adrianna Zabrzewska
Keyword(s):  
Judith Butler ◽  
Adolescent Literature ◽  
First Century ◽  
Karen Barad ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Susan Bordo

W artykule recenzyjnym omówiono monografię Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children’s and Adolescent Literature [Feminizmy XXI wieku w literaturze dziecięcej i młodzieżowej] (2018) autorstwa Roberty Seelinger Trites. Jego celem jest nakreślenie znaczenia tzw. zwrotu materialnego w teorii feministycznej dla badań nad płcią społeczno-kulturową w literaturze dla młodych odbiorców. Artykuł rozpoczyna się od przybliżenia sylwetki Trites i jej poprzednich prac. W kolejnej części przedstawione zostają różne sposoby teoretycznego ujmowania ciała w myśli feministycznej. Przywołanie stanowisk zajmowanych przez Susan Bordo, Judith Butler czy Elizabeth Grosz pomaga stworzyć odpowiednie tło dla podstawowych założeń feminizmu materialnego i teorii Karen Barad. Sproblematyzowanie kwestii ucieleśnionej podmiotowości kobiecej pozwala zarazem wykazać, w jaki sposób zastosowanie przez Trites feminizmu materialnego do badań nad literaturą dziecięcą i młodzieżową wyznacza nowe kierunki analizy i interpretacji. W dalszej części artykułu zostają omówione poszczególne rozdziały książki, w których Trites włącza do dyskusji perspektywy kluczowe dla współczesnych feminizmów, w tym m.in. teorię krytyczną rasy, ekokrytykę, teorię queer oraz studia nad niepełnosprawnością.

Precariousness, kinship, and care: Becoming human in Claire Cameron’s The Last Neanderthal

2020 ◽  
pp. 002198942096798
Author(s):  
Rūta Šlapkauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Female Subject ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Body ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Origins ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article employs Christine L. Marran’s notion of “obligate storytelling” to examine the poetic structures of vulnerability in Canadian author Claire Cameron’s novel The Last Neanderthal (2017). The theoretical backbone of ideas on the materiality of being suggested by Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, Erinn C. Gilson, and Matt Edgeworth, among others, solicits a reading which foregrounds the moral upshot of conceiving the body as an affective centre of life and an arc of anthropogenesis. By following this trajectory, I attempt to show how in troping the archeological dig as a biosemiotic archive, Cameron exposes the structural homologies between the lives of her two female protagonists, a twenty-first-century scientist and a Neanderthal, whose bones she has unearthed. The novel’s use of narrative bifocality offers a visceral construction of subjectivity, which takes its bearings from the shared experience of corporeal vulnerability. By thus imaginatively unspooling the affective links between the neoliberal female subject and her Neanderthal cousin, the novel calls upon us both to rescale our conceptions of creaturely life and rethink our narratives of human origins.

scholarly journals The Turn to Precarity in Twenty-First Century Fiction

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-29
Author(s):  
Jago Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Shift ◽  
The Social ◽  
Biographical Study ◽  
Way Finding ◽  
Twenty First Century

Abstract Recent years have seen several attempts by writers and critics to understand the changed sensibility in post-9/11 fiction through a variety of new -isms. This essay explores this cultural shift in a different way, finding a ‘turn to precarity’ in twenty-first century fiction characterised by a renewal of interest in the flow and foreclosure of affect, the resurgence of questions about vulnerability and our relationships to the other, and a heightened awareness of the social dynamics of seeing. The essay draws these tendencies together via the work of Judith Butler in Frames of War, in an analysis of Trezza Azzopardi’s quasi-biographical study of precarious life, Remember Me.

scholarly journals From Mother/Fetus to Holobiont(s): A Material Feminist Ontology of the Pregnant Body

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chikako Takeshita
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Human Microbiome ◽  
First Century ◽  
Medical Practices ◽  
Karen Barad ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Physical Boundary

Across scientific, medical, legal, political, popular, and religious discourses, the “mother” and the “fetus” are regarded as being separated by a physical boundary. Time and time again, feminist theorists have proposed ways to disband the mother/fetus division derived from Cartesian self/other binarism and individualism. The goal of this article is to introduce and explore an alternative ontology of the pregnant body I call the motherfetus. I follow material feminist Karen Barad (2007) in contending that the “fetus” does not preexist as an object with a distinct agency who interacts with the “mother,” but only materializes through what Barad calls intra-action. I argue that the pregnant body can be reconfigured in such a way that the material distinction between the “mother” and the “fetus” disappears. This endeavor entails re-interpreting material “evidences” provided by twenty-first century technosciences while mobilizing the motherfetus as an apparatus of bodily production. Through a lens that insists on rejecting the genetic, immunological, anatomical, and physiological separation of the “mother” and “fetus,” this article will borrow elements from immunology, microchimerism, and the human microbiome to generate multiple incarnations of the motherfetus as a material-discursive product. In the conclusion, I will examine how the motherfetus as a feminist theory can alter the ways in which the pregnant body is dealt with in feminist activisms as well as in scientific studies and medical practices. 

Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children's and Adolescent Literature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Seelinger Trites
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Adolescent Literature ◽  
First Century ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Cultural Perceptions ◽  
Material Feminism ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Ethics Of Caring

Twenty-First Century Feminisms in Children’s and Adolescent Literature employs methodologies from material feminism to demonstrate how feminist thinking has influenced literature for the young in the last two decades. Material feminism provides people with ways of thinking about the interactions among discourse, embodiment, technology, the environment, cognition, and the ethics of caring. This book thus applies the principles behind material feminism and interrelated manifestations of feminism (such as Critical Race Theory and ecofeminism) to texts written for the young to demonstrate how shifting cultural perceptions of feminism affect what is happening both in publishing for the young and in the academic study of children’s and adolescent literature. The work begins with a specific focus on how language and the material interact before moving to an examination of race as an intersectionally-lived material phenomenon and a social construction. How embodied individuals interact with the environment is explored through ecofeminism and the dystopic; how people interact with each other involves romance, sexuality, and feminist ethics. In other words, the structure of the book moves from examinations of the individual to examinations of the individual in social groups, the individual and the environment, and the individual within relationships. Overall, the goal of this work is to interrogate how material feminism can expand our understanding of materiality, maturation, and gender—especially girlhood—as represented in narratives for preadolescents and adolescents.

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