Böhm A (2023)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2023
Book Volume: 53
Pages Range: 233-258
Journal Issue: 2
DOI: 10.1007/s41244-023-00293-3
From the perspective of Vegan Literary Studies, the paper examines contemporary fictional narratives that deal with vegetarianism or veganism as a counter-discourse to dominant meat culture. Consuming meat does not only affirm anthropological difference, but also closely connects to concepts of masculinity, patriarchy and authority (Carol J. Adams, Jacques Derrida). Hospitality and commensality usually assert social identity and order. However, if people who reject eating meat sit at the table, they assume the position of ›killjoys‹ (Sara Ahmed) who thwart a normative happiness and identity order. The analysis of fictional texts by Coetzee, Han Kang and Hein then asks to what extent their protagonists cause ›species trouble‹, contributing to the destabilization of an assumedly clear human-animal divide, whereas the aesthetic form of the narratives problematizes conventionalized identities, practices and positions of appropriation.
APA:
Böhm, A. (2023). ›Species Trouble‹: Destabilizations of the Human-Animal Divide in Contemporary Vegan Narratives (J.M. Coetzees The Lives of Animals, Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and Jakob Hein’s Wurst und Wahn. Ein Geständnis) ›Species Trouble‹: Verunsicherungen der Mensch-Tier-Grenze in veganen Narrativen der Gegenwartsliteratur (J.M. Coetzees The Lives of Animals, Han Kangs Die Vegetarierin und Jakob Heins Wurst und Wahn. Ein Geständnis). Lili - Zeitschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, 53(2), 233-258. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41244-023-00293-3
MLA:
Böhm, Alexandra. "›Species Trouble‹: Destabilizations of the Human-Animal Divide in Contemporary Vegan Narratives (J.M. Coetzees The Lives of Animals, Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and Jakob Hein’s Wurst und Wahn. Ein Geständnis) ›Species Trouble‹: Verunsicherungen der Mensch-Tier-Grenze in veganen Narrativen der Gegenwartsliteratur (J.M. Coetzees The Lives of Animals, Han Kangs Die Vegetarierin und Jakob Heins Wurst und Wahn. Ein Geständnis)." Lili - Zeitschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 53.2 (2023): 233-258.
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