CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Marin, Florin Eduard |
|---|---|
| Title | The Battle for the Human. Gender, heteronormativity, and the attack of the clones |
| Summary | This thesis aims to explore the ways in which the concept of ‘the human’ is a fiction produced by simultaneous processes of humanization and dehumanization. By engaging in an analysis of three Western novels from the first decade of the twenty-first century that are centered around the image of the clone, I intend to show how these processes of humanization and dehumanization are inflected by the rendition and crystallization of a cultural binary logic of gender upheld by the heterosexual(ized) matrix of social relations. Moreover, I will also be concerned with an exploration of the ways in which the figure of ‘the animal’, as that which has come to represent the absolute non-human, is always summoned as a legitimization of these processes. |
| Supervisor | Barát Erzsébet |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/marin_florin.pdf |
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