Human and Non-human Representations in Maja Lunde’s Fiction: A New Materialist and Post-Speciesist Approach

• Authors: Călina-Maria Moldovan

Abstracts

EN

The article focuses on Maja Lunde’s “climate quartet,” read from the perspective of post-speciesist theory and new materialism. Apart from dealing with climate change and dystopian futures, Lunde’s fiction also tackles the poetics and politics of the non-human (be it non-human animals or the non-human environment), which is no longer perceived as inherently submissive and dependent on the human, but possesses a life of its own. In new materialism’s terms, non-human (organic/inorganic, animate/inanimate) bodies are self-generative and self-sufficient, able to affect and influence other bodies.

Keywords

EN

ecocriticism; new materialism; animal studies; post-speciesism; eco-fiction

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Studia Scandinavica
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 25
• Pages: 51-62

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Călina-Maria Moldovan

• Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca

Identifiers

DOI

10.26881/ss.2021.25.03

Biblioteka Nauki

22592760