Rodgers, Julie (2019) The Emergent Posthuman Landscape in Ying Chen’s La rive est loin. Quebec Studies, 68 (1). pp. 101-120. ISSN 0737-3759

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Abstract

The last novel of what has been termed Ying Chen’s “série fantôme,” La rive est loin (2013), draws us further into a posthuman existence that has been consistently gestured towards since the publication of Immobile (1998) and concludes with a reconfiguration of space, place, and subjectivity that is inextricably intertwined with nature. This article proposes a metaphorical reading of the husband’s brain tumor and the disintegration of the house inhabited by Chen’s recurring couple as the gradual deconstruction of a monolithic human order in favor of a deeper eco-philosophical way of being in the world that is squarely aligned with Rosi Braidotti’s theory of the posthuman.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	posthuman existence; Ying Chen; La rive est loin; theory of the posthuman; série fantôme; Rosi Braidotti;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > French
Item ID:	15470
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.3828/qs.2019.19
Depositing User:	Julie Rodgers
Date Deposited:	09 Feb 2022 14:51
Journal or Publication Title:	Quebec Studies
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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