Towards a Global South posthumanism: The more-than-human world in Han Song’s Red Ocean and Véronique Tadjo’s In the Company of Men
Towards a Global South posthumanism: The more-than-human world in Han Song’s Red Ocean and Véronique Tadjo’s In the Company of Men
Author(s): Fang WangSubject(s): Studies of Literature, Other Language Literature, Environmental and Energy policy, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Globalization, Identity of Collectives
Published by: SAV - Slovenská akadémia vied - Ústav svetovej literatúry
Keywords: Han Song; Red Ocean; Véronique Tadjo; In the Company of Men; Posthumanism; Global South; Multiple modernities
Summary/Abstract: Focusing on two influential ecological novels from the Global South – Hong Se Hai Yang (Red ocean, 2004) by Chinese writer Han Song and En compagnie des hommes (2017; Eng. trans. In the Company of Men, 2021) by Ivorian writer Véronique Tadjo – this essay explores how ecological literature in the Global South offers alternative models of posthumanism grounded in a fluid conception of the self. Drawing on indigenous life philosophies from Chinese and West African traditions, these two novels invite a critique of the dominant narrative of modernity in the contemporary world, driven by an obsession with rapid progression and the primacy of autonomous subjectivity.
Journal: World Literature Studies
- Issue Year: 17/2025
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 75-87
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English
