Performing the (Non)Human: A Tentatively Posthuman Reading of Dionne Brand’s Short Story 'Blossom'

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dc.contributor.authorSikora, Tomasz
dc.contributor.organizationPedagogical University of Cracowen
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-02T07:44:00Z
dc.date.available2013-08-02T07:44:00Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionThe article offers a reading of Dionne Brand’s short story "Blossom" through a problematization of the (liberal humanist) notion of the 'human'. The eponymous character refuses to fit into the limited categories and life-scripts prepared for her by Canada's social and institutional environment and ends up as a priestess of the goddess Oya. This, the article concludes, allows Blossom to escape the modern Western socio-political discourses of authenticized and stabilized identities based on race, gender, religion, cultural background, and Western-inflected 'humanity'.en
dc.description.abstractThe article offers a reading of Dionne Brand’s short story "Blossom" through a problematization of the (liberal humanist) notion of the 'human'. The eponymous character refuses to fit into the limited categories and life-scripts prepared for her by Canada's social and institutional environment and ends up as a priestess of the goddess Oya. This, the article concludes, allows Blossom to escape the modern Western socio-political discourses of authenticized and stabilized identities based on race, gender, religion, cultural background, and Western-inflected 'humanity'.en
dc.description.epersonRafał Majka
dc.identifier.citationSikora, Tomasz. "Performing the (Non)Human: A Tentatively Posthuman Reading of Dionne Brand’s Short Story 'Blossom'", TransCanadiana, Polish Journal of Canadian Studies. Tom 3 (2010): 113-123.en
dc.identifier.issn1899-0355
dc.identifier.urihttps://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/2190
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPolish Association for Canadian Studiesen
dc.rightsUznanie autorstwa 3.0 Polskapl_PL
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/
dc.subjecthumanityen
dc.subjectOyaen
dc.subjectcritique of liberalismen
dc.subjectnon(human)en
dc.subjectnon-humanen
dc.subjectDionne Branden
dc.titlePerforming the (Non)Human: A Tentatively Posthuman Reading of Dionne Brand’s Short Story 'Blossom'en
dc.typearticleen
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