Document Type
Article
Abstract
The paper comparatively reads Mahasweta Devi’s Pterodactyl, Pirtha, and Puran Sahay (1995) and Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood (2009) to trace the ways in which both novels show the complex intertwinement of the climate crisis with gender, class, race, subalternity, anthropocentrism, and veganism. Bringing together Gayatri C. Spivak’s notion of “planetarity” with ecofeminist philosophy and literary criticism, the article proposes a planetary ecogender reading of the two texts and their representation of the non-man, non-human, and non-subject. Building up further on Jacques Derrida’s critique of carno-phallogocentrism, the pedagogy of a relational ethics of “nurturing” is hence presented as a form of resistance against the continuing cannibal consumption of both the planet and the non-(hu)man, presented in the novels and existing in the real world alike.
Recommended Citation
Striewski, Samu/elle
(2024)
"Women, animals, food: Planetary perspectives on the non-(hu)man,"
Comparative Woman: Vol. 2:
Iss.
2, Article 2.
Available at:
https://repository.lsu.edu/comparativewoman/vol2/iss2/2
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