Human and Non-human Representations in Maja Lunde’s Fiction: A New Materialist and Post-Speciesist Approach
Human and Non-human Representations in Maja Lunde’s Fiction: A New Materialist and Post-Speciesist Approach

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on Maja Lunde’s “climate quartet,” read from the perspective of post-speciesisttheory and new materialism. Apart from dealing with climate change and dystopian futures,Lunde’s fiction also tackles the poetics and politics of the non-human (be it non-human animalsor the non-human environment), which is no longer perceived as inherently submissiveand dependent on the human, but possesses a life of its own. In new materialism’s terms, non-human (organic/inorganic, animate/inanimate) bodies are self-generative and self-sufficient, able to affect and influence other bodies.

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