« Vivre avec le trouble » du changement climatique : écoféminismes posthumains dans Le Roman de Jeanne de Lidia Yuknavitch (2017) et The Tiger Flu de Larissa Lai (2018)
This paper offers to identify how contemporary ecofeminist fiction contributes to cli-fi. The novels The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch (2017, USA) and The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai (2018, Canada) provide ways to think about the detrimental human impact on climate in post-apocalyptic settings where...
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| Language: | French |
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Université Gustave Eiffel
2023-06-01
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| Series: | ReS Futurae |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/resf/11769 |
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| Summary: | This paper offers to identify how contemporary ecofeminist fiction contributes to cli-fi. The novels The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch (2017, USA) and The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai (2018, Canada) provide ways to think about the detrimental human impact on climate in post-apocalyptic settings where natural resources – hydrocarbons in particular – have been used up.First, examining the temporalities of the novels evidences the interconnections of the exploitation of a feminized nature and that of “the sexualized, racialized, and naturalized others” (Braidotti, 2013, p. 15). Then, we observe that the novels denounce a form of bio-power that is applied not only to human others, but also to the living in general. The great modern hierarchical dualisms, particularly the nature/culture dichotomy, still provide structure to those dystopian societies. Yet, the novels also contain a propositional drive that is made more intelligible thanks to D. Haraway’s cyborg feminism. Those propositions materialize in posthuman cyborg figures that embrace their hybridity with technology and non-human life, which encourage a de-centering from the human individual subject. Moreover, those novels confront the conflictual relationship between (eco)feminism and technology by presenting (nano- and bio-)techs as patriarchal tools that can be appropriated by feminist subjects. We conclude that the potential of ecofeminism as a critical theory is fully reached when combined with other approaches such as postmodern, cyborg and posthuman feminisms. Those theoretical fields have common preoccupations with cli-fi. We also posit that The Book of Joan relies on a more postmodern, linguistic approach whereas The Tiger Flu aligns with the neo-materialist stance of posthuman feminism. |
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| ISSN: | 2264-6949 |