Going Feral: The Utopian Horror of Human-Animal Hybrids

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dc.contributor.advisorLeMenager, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorMaggiulli, Katrina
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-27T18:39:54Z
dc.date.available2016-10-27T18:39:54Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-27
dc.description.abstractAccording to the material feminist corpus, namely Stacy Alaimo’s concept of trans-corporeality, material flows and interconnectivity between humans and their environment insists that the human body has never been atomistic, but rather a porous figure that continually interacts/intra-acts with its environment. The recent biotechnological boom allowing for the production of human-animal hybrids (chimeras) provides the kind of visualization of these interconnectivities that can help instigate a reconception of the human—as not human at all, but rather posthuman. This study looks at the presence of these human-animal hybrids in popular art media, specifically: the horror film, Splice (Dir. Natali 2009); the YA novel, Inhuman (Falls 2013); and the comic, Sweet Tooth (Lemire 2009-2013). This thesis argues that the human-animal hybrid figure exhibits utopian horror, or the use of horror to produce new, better, ways of conceptualizing human-animal relationships, ones that acknowledge our already posthuman plurality of self.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/20463
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectAnimalsen_US
dc.subjectComicsen_US
dc.subjectHorroren_US
dc.subjectHybridsen_US
dc.subjectTrans-corporealityen_US
dc.subjectYoung adulten_US
dc.titleGoing Feral: The Utopian Horror of Human-Animal Hybrids
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineEnvironmental Studies Program
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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