Open AccessHuman and Non-human Representations in Maja Lunde’s Fiction: A New Materialist and Post-Speciesist Approach
Author(s) -
Călina-Maria Moldovan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
studia scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2657-6740
pISSN - 1899-2811
DOI - 10.26881/ss.2021.25.03
Subject(s) - materialism , dystopia , poetics , perspective (graphical) , affect (linguistics) , futures contract , aesthetics , politics , generative grammar , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , literature , art , poetry , communication , political science , linguistics , law , visual arts , financial economics , economics
The article focuses on Maja Lunde’s “climate quartet,” read from the perspective of post-speciesist theory and new materialism. Apart from dealing with climate change and dystopian futures, Lunde’s fiction also tackles the poetics and politics of the non-human (be it non-human animals or the non-human environment), which is no longer perceived as inherently submissive and dependent on the human, but possesses a life of its own. In new materialism’s terms, non-human (organic/inorganic, animate/inanimate) bodies are self-generative and self-sufficient, able to affect and influence other bodies.