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Journal of Literary Studies
versión On-line ISSN 1753-5387
versión impresa ISSN 0256-4718
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ZHOU, Xinshuo y WANG, Quan. "A New Race of Immortals": A Posthumanist Reading of "Poe Posthumous; or, the Light-House". JLS [online]. 2022, vol.38, n.3, pp.1-12. ISSN 1753-5387. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1753-5387/11259.
This article proposes a posthumanist reading of Joyce Carol Oates's "Poe Posthumous; or, The Light-House," and argues that posthumanism provides human beings with a new way of living. In the story, the narrator comes to the Light-House at Viña de Mar to participate in a scientific experiment. As an "exemplary specimen of Homo sapiens," the narrator endeavours to preserve human knowledge, which symbolises his superiority over nonhuman species. However, on becoming further involved in nature, he gradually abandons his anthropocentric thought, and learns to live with other species. The posthumanist thought finds its full expression in the symbiotic coexistence of multiple species and culminates in the narrator' s cross-species marriage to a female Cyclophagus. The juxtaposition of the decentring of anthropocentrism with the ascent of nonhuman agents highlights the posthumanist coexistence of humans and nonhumans.
Palabras clave : Light-House; knowledge; posthumanism; nonhuman; coexistence.
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