Bugging: The Kaleidoscopic Literary Politics of Insects
Bugging: The Kaleidoscopic Literary Politics of Insects
Author(s): Nina SeilerSubject(s): Fiction, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Civil Society, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics, Comparative Study of Literature, Polish Literature, Contemporary Philosophy, Politics and society, History and theory of political science, Comparative politics, Theory of Literature, Rhetoric
Published by: Universitatea Petrol-Gaze din Ploieşti
Keywords: insects; literature; film; Poland; socialism; 1968; post-humanism; surveillance; WW2;
Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the appearance of insects in Polish literature of the mid-socialist period. It will elaborate a post-humanist perspective on the peaking presence of flies, wasps, bugs or worms in literary texts both as a motif and as an aesthetic strategy. The article investigates the way the deployment of insects in and through the text modulates the view of and the perspective on their human fellows, and how these modulations can be traced to the social reality of the socialist 1960s and 1970s.
Journal: Word and Text, A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics
- Issue Year: XI/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 117-134
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English