Dismissed Possibilities: Thingness, Posthumanism and Corporeal Feminism in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus

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dc.authorid0000-0002-0074-374Xen_US
dc.contributor.authorÖz, Özge
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-12T14:46:45Z
dc.date.available2022-12-12T14:46:45Z
dc.date.issued2022-08-24
dc.description.abstractAbstract: In Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus (1984), the protagonist Fevvers is a character with an overwhelming bodily presence, whose identity is mediated through her bodily performances and via the viewership of the spectacle that is her “self”. Always facing the question “Is she fact or is she a fiction?”, the real identity and being of Fevvers seems to escape the reader through her magnified corporeality and performativity. Yet, as the episodes in which Fevvers performs as inanimate objects or is juxtaposed next to them show, the corporeal existence of Fevvers harbors many posthuman possibilities for subjectivity, even though Fevvers is also discovered to be severely marked by her human identity and femininity. Using a theoretical framework informed by writings on thing theory, posthumanism, and posthuman feminism, this paper explores the hybrid bodily existence of Fevvers from a post humanist angle to point out that despite demonstrating a general intuition towards a posthuman understanding of subjectivity and feminism as also claimed by former critics, Nights at the Circus finally dismisses such possibilities for a “corporeal feminism” as manifestoed by Elizabeth Grozs. Staying loyal to her human nature, the novel’s protagonist Fevvers turns down possibilities offered by her animal, thing, and machine beings and subsumes her hybridity under corporeal feminism.en_US
dc.fullTextLevelFull Texten_US
dc.identifier.doi10.26650/LITERA2021-876183
dc.identifier.issn2602-2117
dc.identifier.issn1304-0057
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85175240011en_US
dc.identifier.trdizinid1116788en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/4730
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.26650/LITERA2021-876183
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/yayin/detay/1116788en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000839331700003en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizinen_US
dc.issue1en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.nationalInternationalen_US
dc.numberofauthors1en_US
dc.pages41-64en_US
dc.publisherISTANBUL UNIVen_US
dc.relation.ispartofLitera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studiesen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectPosthumanismen_US
dc.subjectthing theoryen_US
dc.subjectAngela Carteren_US
dc.subjectfeminismen_US
dc.subjectNights at the Circusen_US
dc.titleDismissed Possibilities: Thingness, Posthumanism and Corporeal Feminism in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus
dc.typeArticle
dc.volume32en_US

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