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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 |
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| Keywords: | posthuman existence; Ying Chen; La rive est loin; theory of the posthuman; série fantôme; Rosi Braidotti; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > French |
| Item ID: | 15470 |
| Identification Number: | 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 |
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| 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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