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Be(com)ing Human: The Intersections of Animality, Race, and Disability in Modernist Literature.

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正題名/作者:	Be(com)ing Human: The Intersections of Animality, Race, and Disability in Modernist Literature./
作者:	Warczak, Katie Ann.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
面頁冊數:	300 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-03A.
標題:	Pseudoscience. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30551202
ISBN:	9798380256865

Be(com)ing Human: The Intersections of Animality, Race, and Disability in Modernist Literature.
Warczak, Katie Ann.

Be(com)ing Human: The Intersections of Animality, Race, and Disability in Modernist Literature. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 300 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2023.

Be(com)ing Human: The Intersections of Animality, Race, and Disability in Modernist Literature interrogates the intersections of race, animality, and disability in late Victorian and modernist literature to situate these links not only as a site of oppression, but also of opportunity. Traditionally, the connections between these identities have been employed by the dominant culture (specifically that of cisgender, heterosexual, able-bodied, white Western men) to "justify" marginalizing supposedly lesser individuals and groups. This especially proved true in the wake of On the Origin of Species's publication in 1859, as Charles Darwin's theories about evolution were misconstrued to entrench existing social hierarchies and limit who society (and science) considered fully human. Given that nineteenth-century institutions such as the freak show were integral for pseudoscientifically entwining racial, disability, and animal identities in the popular imagination, I examine performers within this context before turning to how literature engaged with debates over humanity at the fin de siecle. With the freak show's decline during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, I argue literature contributed significantly to the spread of prejudiced pseudoscientific understandings of the links between non-whiteness, animality, and disability. Chapter 1 emphasizes fiction's role in this regard by showing how writers like H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker, and Edgar Rice Burroughs exacerbated pseudoscientific anxieties over Anglo-Saxon degeneration by affirming white fears about the Other as an inhuman force that needed to be destroyed or conquered to prevent the fall of Western civilization.Chapter 2, however, emphasizes that reinforcing the white ableist cisheteropatriarchy is not all that turn-of-the-century literature sought to accomplish, especially with the rise of modernism. Recognizing that the links between race, animality, and disability could open possibilities and not just oppress, writers like Franz Kafka, Kay Boyle, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and D. H. Lawrence employed these connections to pen texts that valued transspecies kinships, non-normative embodiments, and challenged traditional conceptions of the human. Although they, too, often problematically draw on pseudoscientific theories, these authors nonetheless present models for undermining existing social hierarchies by, for instance, suggesting animality is a crucial part of being human. Chapter 3 engages with this last idea further via the work of Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps, and Richard Wright, but shifts focus to issues related to control. African Americans have unique - and highly fraught - relationships with disability and animal associations, necessitating control over what I term their "liminanimality" (the socially-imposed racist and pseudoscientific assumptions about Black individuals' supposedly inherent animal and disability embodiment) to claim agency and humanity as well as resist white supremacy. Chesnutt's and Hurston's characters achieve this control, but Bontemps's and Wright's protagonists do not; as a result, they experience violence, misfortune, and even death.Chapter 4 expands on the questions of violence with which Chapter 3 engages using the works of Jack London, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Ernest Hemingway. This section highlights how violence mediates human-animal as well as interhuman relationships and why we need to minimize hierarchical hostility to allow for greater human and animal flourishing. Ultimately, this is the project's goal. By understanding the intersectional - and pseudoscientific - modern origins of our existing social hierarchies, we have a better chance of dismantling them, and the literature examined within this project (particularly that of Boyle, Woolf, Barnes, Lawrence, Chesnutt, Hurston, and, to a lesser extent, Rawlings and Hemingway) can provide models for enacting more caring, interdependent, and accommodating trans- and intraspecies relations in the twenty-first century.

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