A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa
Human-Animal Bodies in The Blue Fox and CoDex 1962
Tekijät: Tynan, Avril
Toimittaja: Linda Badley, Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir, Gitte Mos
- Kustantaja: Taylor & Francis
Julkaisuvuosi: 2024
Kokoomateoksen nimi: Critical Approaches to Sjón North of the Sun
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: Critical Approaches to Sjón North of the Sun
Aloitussivu: 211
Lopetussivu: 223
ISBN: 978-1-032-58046-3
eISBN: 978-1-003-44227-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003442271-19
Julkaisun avoimuus kirjaamishetkellä: Ei avoimesti saatavilla
Julkaisukanavan avoimuus : Osittain avoin julkaisukanava
Verkko-osoite: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003442271-19
Rinnakkaistallenteen osoite: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/457773230
Rinnakkaistallenteen lisenssi: CC BY NC ND
Rinnakkaistallennetun julkaisun versio: Final draft
Animalistic renderings of human bodies have been criticised as a means of dehumanisation that reinforces damaging stereotypes of disability by transforming the individual into a less-than-human Other. In CoDex 1962 and Skugga-Baldur: Þjóðsaga (The Blue Fox), human-animal hybrids and metamorphoses highlight the biopolitics of both human and non-human life defined by social values and expectations. Yet, Sjón’s renderings of the human body in animal form do not perpetuate oppressive perspectives on non-human Others or disabled humans but instead draw attention to the sentience and humanity of the vulnerable body. Drawing on the intersections between critical disability studies and critical animal studies, this chapter argues that Sjón blurs the binaries between human and animal, normal and “abnormal,” healthy and ill, to illustrate a critical perspective on social discourses of the vulnerable body. Caught somewhere between freedom and oppression, Sjón’s characters harvest the potential of their vulnerable bodies to find in their more-than-human forms a means of escaping the constraints of the Anthropocene. With political, historical, and cultural significance, these transformative renderings highlight the vulnerable body as a form imbued with potential, autonomy, and agency.
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