The War against Animals in Guadalupe Nettel's Natural Histories : Speciesism, Sexism, and Classism

KRÁSNÁ, Denisa. The War against Animals in Guadalupe Nettel's Natural Histories : Speciesism, Sexism, and Classism. In 2023 Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, 5-8 January, 2023. 2023.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: The War against Animals in Guadalupe Nettel's Natural Histories : Speciesism, Sexism, and Classism
• Autoři: KRÁSNÁ, Denisa.
• Vydání: 2023 Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, 5-8 January, 2023, 2023.

Další údaje

• Originální jazyk: angličtina
• Typ výsledku: Prezentace na konferencích
• Obor: 60206 Specific literatures
• Stát vydavatele: Spojené státy
• Utajení: není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
• WWW: URL
• Organizační jednotka: Filozofická fakulta
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Mexican Literature; Animal Studies; Guadalupe Nettel; Natural Histories; Anthropocentrism; Speciesism; Sexism; Classism
• Štítky: Animal Studies, anthropocentrism, Classism, Guadalupe Nettel, Mexican Literature, Natural Histories, Sexism, Speciesism
• Příznaky: Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Anotace

In her short story collection Natural Histories (2013), the Mexican author Guadalupe Nettel disrupts traditional anthropocentric narratives by portraying nonhuman animals as subjects with agency and subjectivity, capable of creating kinships and distinct cultures, resisting injustice, and expressing deep pain and grief. The paper analyses two of Nettel's stories – “The Marriage of the Red Fish” and “War in the Trash Cans” that question the traditional Western portrayal and treatment of fish and cockroaches respectively while simultaneously opposing the status quo. While the first story intertwines sexism with speciesism as both the human and nonhuman females are “consumed” by their male counterpart, the second story reveals the intersections of speciesism and classism as both the working class protagonist and the cockroaches are treated as “invasive species”. Nettel challenges the violent human sovereignty over other animals as well as the colonial constructs of patriarchy and classism.

Návaznosti

• MUNI/A/1054/2022, interní kód MU: Název: Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies III

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies III