Posthumanist Trauma: An Intrasectional Approach to Accountable Determinacy in Current North American Narrative

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https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.4370

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Intra-action, critical posthumanism, trauma studies, 9/11, accountability, North American narrative

Abstract

How can we deal with trauma in a posthuman world? The 9th of September 2001 will be remembered as the day the world changed. The turn of the century in the Western world was signaled by this national trauma, but also by a change in the humanist paradigm that very much conditioned the way in which such trauma was experienced and represented. This article explores this intrasection in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Art Spiegelman as they struggle to account for 9/11 through two trauma narratives that signal a matching change in aesthetic approach. Its methodological innovation lies in the application of Karen Barad’s concept of “intra-action” to the humanities.


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Miriam Fernández-Santiago, University of Granada

Senior Lecturer in English Literature

Main Researcher of Research Group GRACO (HUM676) <https://graco.ugr.es>

Editor of REN <https://editorial.us.es/es/revista-de-estudios-norteamericanos>

Editor of SENDEBAR http://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/sendebar/index

Current research project: http://typh.unizar.es/

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22-12-2021

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Fernández-Santiago, M. (2021). Posthumanist Trauma: An Intrasectional Approach to Accountable Determinacy in Current North American Narrative. Journal of English Studies, 19, 73–95. https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.4370

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