Species Entanglement in: Disgrace, Life of Pi, the Cats' Lives
| Autor: | Fang-Ming Hsueh, 薛芳明 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 106 Because of human exceptionalism, humans place themselves on top in a hierarchy, and a division is clearly made between between humans and nonhuman species. We think we have the world in control, and we alienate ourselves from nature. Yet today, as our living environment deteriorates, we pay more and more attention to the nonhuman world. To put our relationship with other species in a different light, this thesis is going to address how humans and animals are entangled by analyzing two Western texts, Disgrace and Life of Pi, and a Taiwanese text, The Cats’ Lives (Lierenmen). The central idea in this thesis is based on Deleuze and Guattari’s “rhizome.” In an entanglment, animals are anthropomorphized and humans are zoomorphized so that both can be allied. In contrast to rhizome, patrilineality, trees of filiation, is about geneology and identity. Our commonly conceived relation with the world is based on “roots,” which often leads to domination and competition. Yet, a rhizomatic connection is built upon commonality and cooperation. It is situated in “becoming,” which is explicated in terms of “deterritorialization” and “reterritorialization.” |
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