Can the Fetus Speak?: Revolutionary Wombs, Body Politics, and Feminist Philosophy
| Autor: | Nicole Sparling Barco |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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feminist phenomenology
feminist philosophy maternal body pregnant body pregnant subject fetus fetal subject fetal person personhood metaphor Ariel Dorfman Carlos Fuentes Chile Mexico postmodern aesthetics biopolitics metaphysics metaphysical metaphor History of scholarship and learning. The humanities AZ20-999 |
| Zdroj: | Humanities, Vol 7, Iss 1, p 24 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2076-0787 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/h7010024 |
| Popis: | Ariel Dorfman’s La última canción de Manuel Sendero (The Last Song of Manuel Sendero) and Carlos Fuentes’s Cristóbal Nonato (Christopher Unborn) explore conception, gestation, and birth as points of origin for humanity and citizenship alike by giving voice to life/lives that cannot speak for itself/themselves. Dorfman and Fuentes employ metafictional techniques and postmodern aesthetics, interrogate history in order to express their political commitments to rights, resistance, and revolution, and link textual production and human reproduction in order to posit national futures. Reading these works through a feminist lens, I weigh the poetic and philosophical implications of telling a story from the point of view of gametic, embryonic, or fetal, but decidedly male, narrators against the symbolic exclusion and silencing of mothers that bear them. When rendered a biopolitical frontier in symbolic or actual terms, the pregnant body poses particular philosophical quandaries that require further investigation. As such, this essay weaves together discourses on poetics, philosophy, and politics in order to uncover the perplexity that the pregnant mother, as figure for the nation, induces. |
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