| Autor: |
Maria Sofia Pimentel-Biscaia |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
| Zdroj: |
Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance ISBN: 9783030955076 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-95508-3_4 |
| Popis: |
In this chapter, I investigate how Joyce Carol Oates has conceptualised martyrdom in terms of gender and non-human animal perspectives in “Martyrdom” (1994). I suggest that a biopolitical approach to gendered violence and to the instrumentalisation of animal bodies allows the revelation of systemic and ontological violence exerted over oppressed subjectivities. This violence is of an anthropocentric and androcentric nature and, therefore, not exclusive to the North American context. Judith Butler’s and Sarah Bracke’s remapping of subjectivity as relational and interdependent politics provides a deconstructive alternative to the binary coding which positions the male human as sole active agent. Butler and Bracke propose policies of resilience and vulnerability as operative processes in the struggle for radical resistance counteracting/supplementing the discourse of martyrdom. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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