Posthumanism and Its Animal Voices in Literature

Barcz, Anna

doi:10.18318/td.2015.en.1.15

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“…Ojaide’s Songs of Myself and Yeibo’s A Song for Tomorrow poetically dwell on the people’s hope and desire to find what post-humanism describes as a community of life. And according to Barcz (2015), post-humanism is the only contemporary intellectual direction to suggest that humanism and anthropocentricism do not make space for non-human species following their dominant human interest. And by attacking anthropocentrism and species chauvinism, post-humanism reflects thought models of human–nature relationship (Barcz, 2015).…”

Section: Understanding the Niger Delta Environment: A Theoretical App...mentioning

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“…And according to Barcz (2015), post-humanism is the only contemporary intellectual direction to suggest that humanism and anthropocentricism do not make space for non-human species following their dominant human interest. And by attacking anthropocentrism and species chauvinism, post-humanism reflects thought models of human–nature relationship (Barcz, 2015). This is reverberating in ecofeminism as emphasized in this study.…”

Section: Understanding the Niger Delta Environment: A Theoretical App...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To balance our theoretical perspective, we look at post-humanism and ecofeminism as new approaches that stem from existing theories on what seems to be forgotten or abandoned. Post-humanism like ecofeminism is criticized from the angle that new terms do not often inspire trust (Barcz, 2015; Hayles, 1999; Manjula & Sushma, 2014). Yet, there is hope for post-humanism and ecofeminism following Gaard’s (2009) notion of integral ecofeminism and life interconnections.…”

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Indigenous consciousness and life interconnections: an ecofeminist study of Tanure Ojaide’s Songs of Myself and Ebi Yeibo’s A Song for Tomorrow

Abonyi

2022

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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In contemporary Nigerian literature, ecological writings are dominated by the literature of the Nigerian Niger Delta. The literature is popularly critiqued from a postcolonial perspective of environmental injustice and economic marginalization of the people. This article engages Ojaide’s Songs of Myself and Yeibo’s A Song for Tomorrow to evaluate the relationship between the environment and its inhabitants from a gender perspective. It investigates patriarchy and capitalism as ideologies of human self-sufficiency and male superiority that encourage environmental exploitation of the textual Niger Delta. My investigation explores images of ecological circumstances bedeviling the environment and its occupants with a particular focus on women. Following Gaard’s integral ecofeminism, the study takes a post-humanist approach to demonstrate life interconnectedness in the face of oil pollution. My argument is that the ecological proximity of the pristine Niger Delta revitalizes the environment and envisions ecological sustainability through an Indigenous consciousness of motherhood as the centrality of life.

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Section: Understanding the Niger Delta Environment: A Theoretical App...mentioning

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Section: Understanding the Niger Delta Environment: A Theoretical App...mentioning

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Indigenous consciousness and life interconnections: an ecofeminist study of Tanure Ojaide’s Songs of Myself and Ebi Yeibo’s A Song for Tomorrow

Abonyi

2022

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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“…As we know, research on the issue trends in literary studies is still rare. Based on the author's observations, research that discuses trends in literary studies cover mapping studies in geographic literature (Piatti et al, 2008), marine literature (Yamashiro, 2014), environmental destruction literature (Bolt, 2015), feminism literature (Halířová, 2016) and animal literature (Barcz, 2013). Philips (2011) extensively researched and mapped pilgrimage literature in Britain.…”

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Trends in global literary studies: Mapping using Open Access (OA) journals database

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2024

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

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Trends in global literary studies: Mapping using Open Access (OA) journals databaseCurrently, the study of journal mapping is in great demand by researchers from various disciplines, one of which is the literary discipline. Mapping literary research allows for the presentation of statistics on literary research that is currently trending or less desirable. This study aims to map trends in literature studies globally from 2015 to 2019. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative with interpretive-narrative techniques. The data used in this study were international journal literature category with Open Access (OA) criteria obtained from the ScimagoJR database. The data used are 10 literary journals in the Open Access category. The data were collected using documentation technique. Data analysis techniques in this study include identification, classification, reduction, analysis, presentation, mapping, and conclusions. The results showed that the trend of literary research in the Open Access database changes every year. In the 2015-2019 period, trends in literary studies that were found include philosophy, translation, feminism, anthropology, and interdisciplinary studies. The conclusion shows that the highest ranking of literature studies in the Open Access database is translation.Keywords: database, open access, mapping, literatureTren dalam studi sastra global: Pemetaan menggunakan database jurnal Open Access (OA)Saat ini studi mengenai pemetaan jurnal sangat diminati oleh peneliti dari berbagai disiplin, salah satunya adalah disiplin sastra. Melalui pemetaan penelitian sastra dapat diketahui penelitian sastra yang saat ini tren ataupun penelitian sastra yang kurang diminati. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memetakan tren studi sastra secara global mulai tahun 2015 hingga 2019. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan teknik interpretatif-naratif. Data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah jurnal internasional kategori sastra dengan kriteria Open Access (OA) yang diperoleh dari database ScimagoJR. Data yang digunakan adalah 10 jurnal sastra kategori Open Access. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan secara dokumentatif. Teknik analisis data dalam penelitian ini meliputi identifikasi, klasifikasi, reduksi, analisis, penyajian, pemetaan, dan simpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa tren penelitian sastra dalam database Open Access mengalami perubahan setiap tahun. Dalam kurun waktu tahun 2015-2019 ditemukan tren studi sastra, yaitu filsafat, penerjemahan, feminisme, antropologi, dan interdisipliner. Kesimpulannya menunjukkan bahwa peringkat tertinggi studi sastra dalam basis data Open Access adalah penerjemahan.Kata kunci: database, open acces, pemetaan, sastra

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Casting Justice Before Swine: Late Mediaeval Pig Trials as Instances of Human Exceptionalism

Gins

2023

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In recent years, several cases about the legal personhood of nonhuman animals garnered global attention, e.g. the recognition of ‘basic rights’ for the Argentinian great apes Sandra and Cecilia. Legal scholars have embraced the animal turn, blurring the once sovereign boundaries between persons and objects, recognising nonhuman beings as legal subjects. The zoonotic origins of the Covid-19 pandemic stress the urgency of establishing ‘global animal law’ and deconstructing anthropocentrism. To this end, it is vital to also consider the extensive premodern legal history that humans share with other animals. Over 200 so-called animal trials have been documented in premodern Europe. In these proceedings, certain nonhuman animals—particularly domestic pigs—were prosecuted, often resulting in their capital punishment or anathema. This paper takes a history of ideas approach to these historical instances where Western philosophy of law and philosophical anthropology intersect, problematising the notion that such trials constitute wholesome precedents of the kind of legal personhood presently debated in jurisprudence. My counter-hegemonic analysis of the legal prosecution and execution of several pigs in fifteenth-century France demonstrates that late mediaeval notions of criminality transcended the alleged human-nonhuman divide whilst reaffirming and reifying human distinctiveness. I propose that pig trials were local laboratories where Christian communities reflected upon the natural hierarchy of God’s creation. Ensuing the apparent breach of the prescribed boundaries of nature, these communities renegotiated and re-naturalised everyday interspecies sociability by utilising the offending animals to exemplify particular norms about what it means to be human, generally to the animals’ detriment.

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Posthumanism and Its Animal Voices in Literature

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Indigenous consciousness and life interconnections: an ecofeminist study of Tanure Ojaide’s Songs of Myself and Ebi Yeibo’s A Song for Tomorrow

Indigenous consciousness and life interconnections: an ecofeminist study of Tanure Ojaide’s Songs of Myself and Ebi Yeibo’s A Song for Tomorrow

Trends in global literary studies: Mapping using Open Access (OA) journals database

Casting Justice Before Swine: Late Mediaeval Pig Trials as Instances of Human Exceptionalism

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