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Fiction's Swarm The Creation(s) of Animals at the End(s) of Nature- [electronic resource]
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 학위논문파일 국외
최종처리일시  
20240214100430
ISBN  
9798380382571
DDC  
820
저자명  
Tomasula y Garcia, Alba.
서명/저자  
Fictions Swarm The Creation(s) of Animals at the End(s) of Nature - [electronic resource]
발행사항  
[S.l.]: : University of California, Berkeley., 2023
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
형태사항  
1 online resource(163 p.)
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: B.
주기사항  
Advisor: Jones, Donna.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2023.
사용제한주기  
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초록/해제  
요약My dissertation is concerned with the consequences of how literary, historical, and scientific representations of animal life tend to depict our fellow creatures through two static frameworks: as either "object" (i.e., a machine-like entity that runs purely on pre-programmed instinct) or as "person" (i.e., a being that shares all the same traits as we humans). All critique notwithstanding, these tenacious frameworks significantly shape how we interact with living beasts. In contrast to these frameworks, I propose that it is more productive to start from the assumption that it is the entangled interactions between humans, animals, ideologies, and technologies that influence not what animals "inherently" are, but what they, like us, continually become. My dissertation, then, places literature's beasts at a critical locus within these entanglements, and is composed of four chapters, each dedicated to a different genre of animal narrative: The Hunting Genre; The Fecund Dystopia Genre; The Melancholy Conservation Genre; and the Lively Catastrophe Genre. While my primary texts are not exhaustive of these broadly defined genres, they do serve as fruitful examples of what sorts of animal narratives- and what sorts of animal realities-may emerge from a reimagining of "fiction's swarm." Through them, I hope to achieve two objectives: first, to closely analyze a few specific cases of how animals-in both fictional and nonfictional narratives-are used by systems of power to control, determine, and end life on individual, landscape-wide, and global scales. And secondly, to explore how even within the mass suffering and death that the control of life requires, the interactions between humans and non-humans often develop significant and surprising means through which to enact the potentialities that some narratives deny, and others celebrate.I begin my dissertation with the Hunting Genre, analyzing works that are both autobiographical and "strictly" fictional but which all focus on a consequential struggle to the death between a highly individualized human and a highly individualized animal. I begin with Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851) and interpret it as an early, important, simultaneous critique and idealization of hunting, as it is a work defined by both its praise for hunters as well as its painful awareness of the purely economic factors driving hunts for large animals under capitalism. This is followed by two autobiographical accounts, J.H. Patterson's The Man-eaters of Tsavo (1907) and Carl Akeley's In Brightest Africa (1923), for these books present a startling shift in attitudes towards hunting, from a firm belief in its necessity to agony over the extinctions it begets. I next discuss the literary presentations of hunting in William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses (1942) for its focus on the struggle between the supposed nobility of hunting in the midst of the destruction it wrecks on nature and its creatures. David Vann's novel Goat Mountain (2013) is the final work I examine for its 21st century take on the blatant rage a contemporary hunter may feel towards themselves and towards an anthropogenic world that is rapidly losing its wildlife.I follow this chapter with an analysis of works in what I call the Fecund Dystopia genre, which are, ranging from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, primarily concerned with the violent production, reproduction, and intensive control of life. Often explicitly associated with images of and critiques about factory farms, texts in this genre present both animal and human life as coerced to exist in an undifferentiated mass, more raw material than individual beings. While this chapter continues to follow something of a chronological order, I am here primarily interested in examining the similarities between these kinds of narratives. For example, I read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1904) and Timothy Pachirat's Every Twelve Seconds (2011) as kindred texts in their visceral descriptions of fast-paced mechanical animal slaughter and deliberate portrayals of how human and animal flesh undergo similar agonies within the factory farm. Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake (2003) and Don LePan's Animals (2009) are brought into conversation for the similarities of their imagined futures, in which the line between humans and animals has been worn thin as a means to further capitalist enterprises. J.M. Coetzee's The Lives of Animals (1999) is also included for its applicable struggle with the strange current pseudo-existence of animals in the modern/contemporary world as omnipresent in our food and in our theory yet as less and less present alive in everyday human life.My third chapter is dedicated to what I have dubbed the Melancholy Conservation genre, which is composed of works that focus on describing human-caused animal extinctions as tragedies that are worth fighting against, even if this fight is implicitly framed as a losing battle. I found that a relatively concise picture of this genre's uses (and abuses) could be woven from a study of narratives concerning gorillas and chimpanzees, and thus focus my analysis on works that reveal the astonishing transformations these creatures underwent in the Western mindset. I begin with Merian C. Cooper's "monster adventure" films King Kong (1933) and Mighty Joe Young (1949) for offering a window into how completely and rapidly the image of the gorilla- and the "natural world" it was framed as embodying-changed over the 20th century from that of a violent, destructive force to a gentle victim of humanity's whims. Jane Goodall's In the Shadow of Man (1971) and Dian Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist (1983) are next considered for offering influential examples of a (then) new hybrid of animal narrative that is safari adventure, scientific journal, and emotional, even "feminine" framing of what animal life is and how we should treat it. I end with Karen Joy Fowler's novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013) for its careful, and often heart-wrenching, depiction of the generational traumas brought about by the technologies and social systems that define our closest animal relatives as commodities, and the extinctions this framework all but assuredly ends with.To end my dissertation-and in what I hope will provide some alternative analysis/relief to the subjects of my first three chapters-I examine a number of works I categorize under the Lively Catastrophe genre, which operate with explicit recognition of the pain, violence, and loss that have already defined landscapes both on and off the page. Their narratives, however, also grant their protagonists a significant amount of autonomy and possibility in their deliberate creations of human-and more than human-relationships. I begin the chapter by comparing Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain (1903) to Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974). Both texts present a near religious contemplation of nonhuman existence; both also offer a vision of nature and its creatures in which the violence inherent in the natural world, and the author's wonder and love of nature in spite of it, is paramount. Marlen Haushofer's The Wall (1968, English translation 1990) is next read as a novel whose protagonist, even in the grip of personal tragedies, daily drudgery, and debilitating physical ailments, finds means through which to form meaningful-and essential-connections with nonhuman creatures. I end this chapter with Hayao Miyazaki's manga Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1982-1994) for its melancholic yet fiercely and actively hopeful speculations on the tragedies and joys that may be formed through human and nonhuman interactions. In so doing, these works argue for the necessity of the terrifying, amazing potentials that define every relationship between humans and their fellow creatures.Animal narratives, embodied and embedded within animal lives and flesh, inspire consequences that are, quite literally, deadly serious for all parties. What sorts of narratives may contribute to less lethal relations between humans and other creatures is thus not only a pressing question, but one that could greatly shape life, landscape, and even the possibility of a habitable future.
일반주제명  
American literature.
일반주제명  
Ecology.
일반주제명  
English literature.
일반주제명  
British & Irish literature.
키워드  
Animal studies
키워드  
Biopolitics
키워드  
Literary analysis
키워드  
Nature writing
키워드  
Goat Mountain
기타저자  
University of California, Berkeley English
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-03B.
기본자료저록  
Dissertation Abstract International
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■520    ▼aMy  dissertation  is  concerned  with  the  consequences  of  how  literary,  historical,  and  scientific  representations  of  animal  life  tend  to  depict  our  fellow  creatures  through  two  static  frameworks:  as  either  "object"  (i.e.,  a  machine-like  entity  that  runs  purely  on  pre-programmed  instinct)  or  as  "person"  (i.e.,  a  being  that  shares  all  the  same  traits  as  we  humans).  All  critique  notwithstanding,  these  tenacious  frameworks  significantly  shape  how  we  interact  with  living  beasts.  In  contrast  to  these  frameworks,  I  propose  that  it  is  more  productive  to  start  from  the  assumption  that  it  is  the  entangled  interactions  between  humans,  animals,  ideologies,  and  technologies  that  influence  not  what  animals  "inherently"  are,  but  what  they,  like  us,  continually  become.  My  dissertation,  then,  places  literature's  beasts  at  a  critical  locus  within  these  entanglements,  and  is  composed  of  four  chapters,  each  dedicated  to  a  different  genre  of  animal  narrative:  The  Hunting  Genre;  The  Fecund  Dystopia  Genre;  The  Melancholy  Conservation  Genre;  and  the  Lively  Catastrophe  Genre.  While  my  primary  texts  are  not  exhaustive  of  these  broadly  defined  genres,  they  do  serve  as  fruitful  examples  of  what  sorts  of  animal  narratives-  and  what  sorts  of  animal  realities-may  emerge  from  a  reimagining  of  "fiction's  swarm."  Through  them,  I  hope  to  achieve  two  objectives:  first,  to  closely  analyze  a  few  specific  cases  of  how  animals-in  both  fictional  and  nonfictional  narratives-are  used  by  systems  of  power  to  control,  determine,  and  end  life  on  individual,  landscape-wide,  and  global  scales.  And  secondly,  to  explore  how  even  within  the  mass  suffering  and  death  that  the  control  of  life  requires,  the  interactions  between  humans  and  non-humans  often  develop  significant  and  surprising  means  through  which  to  enact  the  potentialities  that  some  narratives  deny,  and  others  celebrate.I  begin  my  dissertation  with  the  Hunting  Genre,  analyzing  works  that  are  both  autobiographical  and  "strictly"  fictional  but  which  all  focus  on  a  consequential  struggle  to  the  death  between  a  highly  individualized  human  and  a  highly  individualized  animal.  I  begin  with  Herman  Melville's  Moby-Dick  (1851)  and  interpret  it  as  an  early,  important,  simultaneous  critique  and  idealization  of  hunting,  as  it  is  a  work  defined  by  both  its  praise  for  hunters  as  well  as  its  painful  awareness  of  the  purely  economic  factors  driving  hunts  for  large  animals  under  capitalism.  This  is  followed  by  two  autobiographical  accounts,  J.H.  Patterson's  The  Man-eaters  of  Tsavo  (1907)  and  Carl  Akeley's  In  Brightest  Africa  (1923),  for  these  books  present  a  startling  shift  in  attitudes  towards  hunting,  from  a  firm  belief  in  its  necessity  to  agony  over  the  extinctions  it  begets.  I  next  discuss  the  literary  presentations  of  hunting  in  William  Faulkner's  Go  Down,  Moses  (1942)  for  its  focus  on  the  struggle  between  the  supposed  nobility  of  hunting  in  the  midst  of  the  destruction  it  wrecks  on  nature  and  its  creatures.  David  Vann's  novel  Goat  Mountain  (2013)  is  the  final  work  I  examine  for  its  21st  century  take  on  the  blatant  rage  a  contemporary  hunter  may  feel  towards  themselves  and  towards  an  anthropogenic  world  that  is  rapidly  losing  its  wildlife.I  follow  this  chapter  with  an  analysis  of  works  in  what  I  call  the  Fecund  Dystopia  genre,  which  are,  ranging  from  the  beginning  of  the  20th  century  to  the  present,  primarily  concerned  with  the  violent  production,  reproduction,  and  intensive  control  of  life.  Often  explicitly  associated  with  images  of  and  critiques  about  factory  farms,  texts  in  this  genre  present  both  animal  and  human  life  as  coerced  to  exist  in  an  undifferentiated  mass,  more  raw  material  than  individual  beings.  While  this  chapter  continues  to  follow  something  of  a  chronological  order,  I  am  here  primarily  interested  in  examining  the  similarities  between  these  kinds  of  narratives.  For  example,  I  read  Upton  Sinclair's  The  Jungle  (1904)  and  Timothy  Pachirat's  Every  Twelve  Seconds  (2011)  as  kindred  texts  in  their  visceral  descriptions  of  fast-paced  mechanical  animal  slaughter  and  deliberate  portrayals  of  how  human  and  animal  flesh  undergo  similar  agonies  within  the  factory  farm.  Margaret  Atwood's  Oryx  &  Crake  (2003)  and  Don  LePan's  Animals  (2009)  are  brought  into  conversation  for  the  similarities  of  their  imagined  futures,  in  which  the  line  between  humans  and  animals  has  been  worn  thin  as  a  means  to  further  capitalist  enterprises.  J.M.  Coetzee's  The  Lives  of  Animals  (1999)  is  also  included  for  its  applicable  struggle  with  the  strange  current  pseudo-existence  of  animals  in  the  modern/contemporary  world  as  omnipresent  in  our  food  and  in  our  theory  yet  as  less  and  less  present  alive  in  everyday  human  life.My  third  chapter  is  dedicated  to  what  I  have  dubbed  the  Melancholy  Conservation  genre,  which  is  composed  of  works  that  focus  on  describing  human-caused  animal  extinctions  as  tragedies  that  are  worth  fighting  against,  even  if  this  fight  is  implicitly  framed  as  a  losing  battle.  I  found  that  a  relatively  concise  picture  of  this  genre's  uses  (and  abuses)  could  be  woven  from  a  study  of  narratives  concerning  gorillas  and  chimpanzees,  and  thus  focus  my  analysis  on  works  that  reveal  the  astonishing  transformations  these  creatures  underwent  in  the  Western  mindset.  I  begin  with  Merian  C.  Cooper's  "monster  adventure"  films  King  Kong  (1933)  and  Mighty  Joe  Young  (1949)  for  offering  a  window  into  how  completely  and  rapidly  the  image  of  the  gorilla-  and  the  "natural  world"  it  was  framed  as  embodying-changed  over  the  20th  century  from  that  of  a  violent,  destructive  force  to  a  gentle  victim  of  humanity's  whims.  Jane  Goodall's  In  the  Shadow  of  Man  (1971)  and  Dian  Fossey's  Gorillas  in  the  Mist  (1983)  are  next  considered  for  offering  influential  examples  of  a  (then)  new  hybrid  of  animal  narrative  that  is  safari  adventure,  scientific  journal,  and  emotional,  even  "feminine"  framing  of  what  animal  life  is  and  how  we  should  treat  it.  I  end  with  Karen  Joy  Fowler's  novel  We  Are  All  Completely  Beside  Ourselves  (2013)  for  its  careful,  and  often  heart-wrenching,  depiction  of  the  generational  traumas  brought  about  by  the  technologies  and  social  systems  that  define  our  closest  animal  relatives  as  commodities,  and  the  extinctions  this  framework  all  but  assuredly  ends  with.To  end  my  dissertation-and  in  what  I  hope  will  provide  some  alternative  analysis/relief  to  the  subjects  of  my  first  three  chapters-I  examine  a  number  of  works  I  categorize  under  the  Lively  Catastrophe  genre,  which  operate  with  explicit  recognition  of  the  pain,  violence,  and  loss  that  have  already  defined  landscapes  both  on  and  off  the  page.  Their  narratives,  however,  also  grant  their  protagonists  a  significant  amount  of  autonomy  and  possibility  in  their  deliberate  creations  of  human-and  more  than  human-relationships.  I  begin  the  chapter  by  comparing  Mary  Austin's  The  Land  of  Little  Rain  (1903)  to  Annie  Dillard's  Pilgrim  at  Tinker  Creek  (1974).  Both  texts  present  a  near  religious  contemplation  of  nonhuman  existence;  both  also  offer  a  vision  of  nature  and  its  creatures  in  which  the  violence  inherent  in  the  natural  world,  and  the  author's  wonder  and  love  of  nature  in  spite  of  it,  is  paramount.  Marlen  Haushofer's  The  Wall  (1968,  English  translation  1990)  is  next  read  as  a  novel  whose  protagonist,  even  in  the  grip  of  personal  tragedies,  daily  drudgery,  and  debilitating  physical  ailments,  finds  means  through  which  to  form  meaningful-and  essential-connections  with  nonhuman  creatures.  I  end  this  chapter  with  Hayao  Miyazaki's  manga  Nausicaa  of  the  Valley  of  the  Wind  (1982-1994)  for  its  melancholic  yet  fiercely  and  actively  hopeful  speculations  on  the  tragedies  and  joys  that  may  be  formed  through  human  and  nonhuman  interactions.  In  so  doing,  these  works  argue  for  the  necessity  of  the  terrifying,  amazing  potentials  that  define  every  relationship  between  humans  and  their  fellow  creatures.Animal  narratives,  embodied  and  embedded  within  animal  lives  and  flesh,  inspire  consequences  that  are,  quite  literally,  deadly  serious  for  all  parties.  What  sorts  of  narratives  may  contribute  to  less  lethal  relations  between  humans  and  other  creatures  is  thus  not  only  a  pressing  question,  but  one  that  could  greatly  shape  life,  landscape,  and  even  the  possibility  of  a  habitable  future.
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