Narracje zootanatologiczne jako wyznacznik relacji między osobą ludzką i pozaludzką

• Authors: Małgorzata Poks

Title variants

EN

Zoothanatological Narratives as an Index of Relations between Humans and Nonhumans

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Is animal death grievable and do animals grieve their dead? The answer to these questions depends on the narratives one subscribes to. In the dominant narrative of the Western world, human death is treated with respect and animal death is either invisible or instrumentalized. In this article I am considering the consequences of challenging this narrative from the sites of enunciation that are marginal to modernity and, thus, do not replicate its hyperseparated dualism (Val Plumwood’s phrase). First, I introduce the holistic imaginary of indigenous Americans on the example of Linda Hogan’s novel Solar Storms. Next, on the example of Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead, I move to the perspective of Duszejko – a self-exile from European modernity. Both novels demonstrate that iconographies of death (and life) make a real difference in our relationship to the nonhuman other.

Keywords

PL

żałoba,; podejście do śmierci oparte na jedzeniu,; ikonografie śmierci,; Janina Duszejko,; Linda Hogan

EN

mourning,; food-based approach to death,; iconographies of death,; Janina Duszejko,; Linda Hogan

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 253-263

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Poks

Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2019.05.20

Biblioteka Nauki

691969