Posthuman “Meta(l)morphoses” in Jeanette Winterson’s "The Stone Gods"
Jeanette Winterson’s “The Stone Gods” (2007) pictures a futuristic world in which every body is technologically, discursively, and materially constructed. First of all, "The Stone Gods" foregrounds the futuristic conceptualization of embodiment and posthuman gendered bodies in relation to...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
| Repositorio: | e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/25558 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/25558 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Jeanette Winterson The Stone Gods Posthumanism Trans-corporeality Material agency Naturecultures Posthumanismo Trans-corporalidad Agencia material Naturaculturas Literatura Medio ambiente Literature Environmental science |
| Sumario: | Jeanette Winterson’s “The Stone Gods” (2007) pictures a futuristic world in which every body is technologically, discursively, and materially constructed. First of all, "The Stone Gods" foregrounds the futuristic conceptualization of embodiment and posthuman gendered bodies in relation to biotechnology, biogenetics, and robotics, interrogating contemporary dimensions of the interface between the human and the machine, nature and culture.Secondly, the novel focuses on environmental concerns relevant to our present age. More specifically, however, drawing our attention to posthuman toxic bodies in terms of “trans-corporeality,” as suggested by Stacy Alaimo, “The Stone Gods” is an invaluable literary means to speculate on our “posthuman predicament,” in Rosi Braidotti’s words, and global ecological imperilment. In “The Stone Gods”, Winterson provides not only a warning against the dehumanization of the human in the process of posthumanization, but also a salient picture of posthuman trans-corporeal subjects through a discussion of the beneficial and deleterious effects of biotechnology and machines on human-nonhuman “naturecultures.” On this view, looking at both human and nonhuman bodies througha trans-corporeal lens would contribute to an understanding of how material-discursive structures can profoundly transform human-nonhuman life on Earth. |
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