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- Title
Svetlana Alexievich and Posthuman Narratives.
- Authors
Bizuleanu, Dana
- Abstract
This article sets out to explore tensions and symptoms arising in humanist thought, how they influenced fiction and what is understood as fiction in a decisive manner. In the posthuman paradigm story-telling reveals the inner fractures of humanism and its representations. In recent years, celebrated and awarded writers have introduced hybrid forms of the novel, like in the case of Herta Müller and Svetlana Alexievich. Their books make room for the plural and nomadic subject to explore and recreate an already incoherent life, reality and even death. The narrative voices transgress time and space, in order to showcase how the current (post)human subject, released from any type of framing, looks for proper means of expression.
- Subjects
POSTHUMANISM; FICTION writing; HUMANISM in literature; ALEKSIEVICH, Svetlana, 1948-; ARTIFICIAL intelligence &; society; HUMAN-robot interaction
- Publication
Caietele Echinox, 2018, Vol 34, p275
- ISSN
1582-960X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24193/cechinox.2018.34.21