VIELARTIGE KOMPLIZ*INNEN – POSTHUMANE „PARTNERS IN CRIME“ BEI OLGA TOKARCZUK UND SAŠA STANIŠIĆ
DIVERSE ACCOMPLICES – POSTHUMAN “PARTNERS IN CRIME” WITH OLGA TOKARCZUK AND SAŠA STANIŠIĆ

Summary/Abstract: Post-anthropocentric tools are needed to think about relations between humans and more-than-human others. In order to meet the challenges of the interspecific entanglements and interdependencies of a postmodern world, alternative models of collectivity must be designed from scratch with heterogeneous actors in mind. In Saša Stanišićʾs narrative Fallensteller [Trapper] and Olga Tokarczukʾs novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, human and more-than-human protagonists engage in extraordinary relationships with each other. These are analyzed here based on Gesa Ziemer’s theoretical work on complicities as ‘multispecies complicities’. This new perspective on more-than-human collaborations aims to go beyond literary studies to explore multispecies collectives.

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