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Sexing the Alien: A Posthuman Hermeneutics of the Embodied Self in Lisa Tuttle’s “Wives"

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Sexing the Alien: A Posthuman Hermeneutics of the Embodied Self in Lisa Tuttle’s “Wives"

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Dominant discourses seek to take hold of every epistemic stratum through ubiquitous attempts to regulate quotidian experiences and routines. Ranging from language to culture, from gender to political organizations, disciplinary practices constitute a complex web of relations in hierarchical structures and produce specific identities and situations for subjects to inhabit. As critical scholarship in body studies has shown, body is among the central focuses of dominant discourses in that a regulated experience of corporeality secures, as a site of ideological inscription, the continuity of governing paradigms. Lisa Tuttle’s “Wives” calls for a reformulation of the ethics of embodiment and explores how anthropomorphic demarcations are imprinted upon the genderless bodies of extra-terrestrial beings. In this feminist narrative featuring the generic qualities of science fiction, the heteronormative register of the anthropocentric thought finds a new space (a different planet) to actualize its political agenda. The story interrogates the functioning of the humanist set of beliefs against the background of the precarious relation of ideology to embodied subjectivity. As resistance is an immanent constituent of power relations, the nonhuman inhabitants of the colonized planet somehow manage to survive upon being captured by men; nevertheless, this happens at the expense of being reduced to what Giorgio Agamben calls “bare life,” a way of living that is stripped of its potentials and qualities. This study offers a posthuman hermeneutics of the ideological embodiment in Lisa Tuttle’s story and seeks to question the precarious continuity between ideology and the body.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Lisa Tuttle, Wives, anthropomorphic embodiment, bare life, posthuman ethics

Kaynakça

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Kaynak Göster

APA
Çimen, R. (2022). Sexing the Alien: A Posthuman Hermeneutics of the Embodied Self in Lisa Tuttle’s “Wives". Söylem Filoloji Dergisi, 7(3), 742-756. https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.1169340
AMA
1.Çimen R. Sexing the Alien: A Posthuman Hermeneutics of the Embodied Self in Lisa Tuttle’s “Wives". Söylem. 2022;7(3):742-756. doi:10.29110/soylemdergi.1169340
Chicago
Çimen, Rıza. 2022. “Sexing the Alien: A Posthuman Hermeneutics of the Embodied Self in Lisa Tuttle’s “Wives"”. Söylem Filoloji Dergisi 7 (3): 742-56. https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.1169340.
EndNote
Çimen R (01 Aralık 2022) Sexing the Alien: A Posthuman Hermeneutics of the Embodied Self in Lisa Tuttle’s “Wives". Söylem Filoloji Dergisi 7 3 742–756.
IEEE
[1]R. Çimen, “Sexing the Alien: A Posthuman Hermeneutics of the Embodied Self in Lisa Tuttle’s “Wives"”, Söylem, c. 7, sy 3, ss. 742–756, Ara. 2022, doi: 10.29110/soylemdergi.1169340.
ISNAD
Çimen, Rıza. “Sexing the Alien: A Posthuman Hermeneutics of the Embodied Self in Lisa Tuttle’s “Wives"”. Söylem Filoloji Dergisi 7/3 (01 Aralık 2022): 742-756. https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.1169340.
JAMA
1.Çimen R. Sexing the Alien: A Posthuman Hermeneutics of the Embodied Self in Lisa Tuttle’s “Wives". Söylem. 2022;7:742–756.
MLA
Çimen, Rıza. “Sexing the Alien: A Posthuman Hermeneutics of the Embodied Self in Lisa Tuttle’s “Wives"”. Söylem Filoloji Dergisi, c. 7, sy 3, Aralık 2022, ss. 742-56, doi:10.29110/soylemdergi.1169340.
Vancouver
1.Rıza Çimen. Sexing the Alien: A Posthuman Hermeneutics of the Embodied Self in Lisa Tuttle’s “Wives". Söylem. 01 Aralık 2022;7(3):742-56. doi:10.29110/soylemdergi.1169340