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feminismo posthumano
cuento corto
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Antropoceno
Fen
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La finalidad de este artículo es explorar la colección de relatos Fen (2016) de la autora británica Daisy Johnson, prestando especial atención al relato que abre la colección, “Starver”. El artículo se apoya en las premisas del feminismo posthumanista para argumentar que la colección de Johnson propone una ontología relacional, conforme a la cual no resulta posible continuar definiendo la subjetividad humana en términos exclusivos de lo humano. Para tal fin, Johnson desdibuja las fronteras tradicionales que han constituido oposiciones binarias en la epistemología antropocéntrica, tales como naturaleza/cultura, humano/no humano, masculino/femenino. El hecho de que la colección de Johnson se sitúe en las denominadas “Fenlands” del Reino Unido como topología liminal encuentra un correlato con la preocupación contemporánea relativa a la porosidad y fluidez del concepto de frontera y, por extensión, de la identidad. En último término, la colección de Johnson cuestiona la relación entre el individuo y su entorno, que se ve radicalmente alterado por la excesiva intervención humana sobre el mismo, dirigiéndose así de modo inevitable hacia la “sexta extinción” del Antropoceno.
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