Hybrid Topologies of the Self

• Authors: Diaconescu Alexandru
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The following study focuses on Matthew Baker’s Hybrid Creatures (2018) and Irvine Welsh’s The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins (2014) in order to explore the problematisation of mediation, remediation, and transmediation that fiction potentially occasions beyond mere ekphrasis, highlighting their elusive and seemingly self-erasing presence in the signification practices that inform representations of identity and reality. Their outlines are mediated by the plurality of discourses weaving the fabric of the cultural matrix, blurring ontological and categorial boundaries into zones, spaces that fold back onto the sites they delimit and identify. The self-reflexive and self-referential interplay of abstraction and materiality articulates topologies of hybridity, a nowhere space onto which the human is displaced and deferred

Keywords

EN

intermediality; spatiality; hybridity; identity; ontological pluralisation

• Publisher: Inter Litteras Research Centre, STEFAN CEL MARE University, Suceava, Romania; STEFAN CEL MARE Publishing House
• Journal: Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 19 (Multifaceted Approaches to Humanities I)
• Pages: 128-154

Contributors

author

Diaconescu Alexandru

• “Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania