A new biological citizenship: Posthumanism in Octavia Butler's Fledgling
A new biological citizenship: Posthumanism in Octavia Butler's Fledgling
| dc.contributor.author | Nayar, Pramod K. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-27T01:51:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-03-27T01:51:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-12-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This essay argues that Octavia Butler's Fledgling traces, in the transformation of the protagonist Shori from mere zoē into bíos, the evolution of a posthumanist condition where vampires coevolve with humans. This occurs in three stages before climaxing in a posthumanist corporeality that involves a multispecies biological citizenship. Shori's biovalue and biological citizenship is at once corporeal and moral. Biovalue in Butler's posthumanist vision, I conclude, inheres in the moral enhancement of Shori and is the result of her multispecies citizenship. Copyright © for the Purdue Research. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | MFS - Modern Fiction Studies. v.58(4) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 00267724 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | 10.1353/mfs.2012.0062 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/modern_fiction_studies/v058/58.4.nayar.html | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.uohyd.ac.in/handle/1/4258 | |
| dc.title | A new biological citizenship: Posthumanism in Octavia Butler's Fledgling | |
| dc.type | Journal. Article | |
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