Book chapter
Textual Corporeality and the Insect Self
Responding to Creative Writing, pp.59-72
Cambridge Scholars
2020
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Abstract
This chapter responds to creative writing through the zone of the immanent. By problematising the liberal humanist tendency to interpret texts
transcendentally, it maps a new materialist, Critical Animal Studies response to creative writing—intra-acting with texts as open flows and
corporeal becomings. Exemplifying this with excerpts from the creative
component of a practice-based doctoral thesis, a novella called Order of Our
Lady Cicada, as well as Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Octavia E.
Butler’s Bloodchild, this chapter also foregrounds how insects, transformers
themselves, are “animals” which are as far removed from the “human”, as
what the humanist construction of mind has been able to imagine. In
provoking corporeal responses to creative writing, mainly through the realm
of the sonic, this chapter attempts to de-transcendentalise the text. This call
for a response to creative writing that is metamorphic, insectoid and beyond
representation is part of an urgent, bigger project of decolonising everything.
Details
- Title
- Textual Corporeality and the Insect Self
- Creators
- Michelle Braunstein (Author) - Southern Cross University, Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples
- Contributors
- Graeme Harper (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Responding to Creative Writing, pp.59-72
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars
- Identifiers
- 991013231813702368
- Academic Unit
- Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter