Posthumanism and Colonial Discourse: Nineteenth Century Literature and Twenty-First Century Critique

Koegler, Caroline

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“…I. Jackson (2020) points out that when posthumanist and new materialist authors speak about the “human” they refer to a kind of human who is at the top of the hierarchy of humanity and has not had their reality as a human plasticized. Koegler (2020) speaks about how the posthumanist call to trouble the boundaries between human and nonhuman is complex and affects differently people who are classified in particular races. She explores the consequences of this flexing of boundaries for different characters in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel, Jane Eyre .…”

Section: Which Knowledges and Which “Human” Are Posts And New Theorie...mentioning

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“…Instead, there is a broader critique of the way in which these issues are taken up by the posts and new . For example, Koegler (2020) points out that in posthumanist literature, race is generally mentioned as part of the alterity lists (e.g., gender, class, race) and not explored. It seems as if there is an awareness that race is important and needs acknowledgment, but there is not enough dedication to explore how race is part of what is being studied.…”

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Not All That Post, Not All That New: The Disruption of Challenging Coloniality

Serra Undurraga,

Wyatt

2024

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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What happens when, as scholars who have habitually been working with posthumanism and the new materialisms, we find ourselves summoned by thinkers who critique the covert coloniality present in these approaches? This work is the result of a year-long project where we set up the task of feeling our way through these critiques, exploring how they change our work and ourselves; and attempting to find a way of relating to the challenge of decoloniality. We use collaborative writing as an approach to delve into our encounters with readings, our own histories, and our ways of relating to the academy and each other. In this work, we start from our differing histories and positionalities—a Chilean woman and a British man; now colleagues and with a history of being a PhD supervisee-supervisor. Then, we grapple with how posthumanism/new materialism has neglected to think about how coloniality is entangled in who the “humans” it speaks to are and how it is further reproducing colonial dynamics of ethnocentric erasure that effectively do not allow it to go beyond the “human.” After considering possibilities of integration, reparation, survival, and refusal, we conclude it is crucial to reflexively acknowledge and work with our concrete positionalities and interests, thereby making our conceptualizations necessarily provincial, limited, and in some ways problematic. Otherwise, we run the risk of engulfing decolonial, postcolonial, anticolonial, and indigenous theories without any fundamental change, thus furthering coloniality.

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Section: Which Knowledges and Which “Human” Are Posts And New Theorie...mentioning

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Section: What Issues Do Posts and New Approaches Attend To Carefully?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Not All That Post, Not All That New: The Disruption of Challenging Coloniality

Serra Undurraga,

Wyatt

2024

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“…Bertha and Heathcliff are also depicted as inducing dread insofar as they supposedly threaten white health, genealogies, and property relations, whilst at points also proving dangerously alluring in tune with miscegenation fantasies that were prominent at the time. As such feeding classic imperial 'fantasies of violation', the thematically closely related texts position disavowed, colonial subjects in the position of the aggressor (see Koegler 2020Koegler , 2021 and manufacture a need for white self-preservation that pushes back against racialized others. Once this push-back is complete and the racialized other is removed, reconciliation, relief, happiness, and the prospect of white procreation are restored.…”

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2022

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and serves as an interim professor of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz. She is a former associate member of the Collaborative Research Centre 1288 »Practices of Comparing« funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and particularly interested in the power imbalances entailed in practices of comparing. Her further interests include contemporary literature and culture (e.g. neo-Victorian studies, BrexLit), the literary and cultural impact on perception, as well as cultural responses to ecological concerns such as climate change. Marcus Hartner is a senior lecturer in English Studies at Bielefeld University. He is an associate member and former principal investigator of the Collaborative Research Centre 1288 »Practices of Comparing« funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His main fields of research encompass the study of narrative and the intersection of race, gender, and class in early modern literature and culture. Among his further research interests are the study of migration literature, maritime humanities, and Anglo-Muslim relations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Posthumanism and Colonial Discourse: Nineteenth Century Literature and Twenty-First Century Critique

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Not All That Post, Not All That New: The Disruption of Challenging Coloniality

Not All That Post, Not All That New: The Disruption of Challenging Coloniality

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