The collapse of dialogue, consent, and the controversy over Kristen Roupenian’s “Cat Person”

Natalie Roxburgh
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This paper provides a Bakhtinian reading of Kristen Roupenian’s “Cat Person” in order to register the status of dialogue pertaining to questions of sexual coercion and consent in the wake of the #metoo movement. I identify two prominent discourses in the short story: feminist critiques of domination (perspectives that account for structural imbalances that tend to put men in a hierarchy above women) and sex-positive feminism (a worldview that promotes female sexual agency). These two discourses, this paper argues, are relevant to understanding why a collapse of dialogue ensues in the narrative. I then use “Cat Person” to propose a way of contemplating the contemporary media landscape as a generator of failed dialogue.
对话、同意的崩溃,以及克里斯汀·鲁本尼安(Kristen Roupenian)的《猫人》引发的争议
本文提供了对Kristen Roupenian的《猫人》(Cat Person)的巴赫蒂安式解读,以记录#metoo运动之后关于性胁迫和性同意问题的对话现状。我在这个短篇小说中发现了两种突出的话语:对统治的女权主义批评(解释结构失衡的观点,这种失衡倾向于将男性置于女性之上)和性积极的女权主义(一种促进女性性能动性的世界观)。本文认为,这两种话语与理解叙事中对话崩溃的原因有关。然后,我用“猫人”提出了一种思考当代媒体景观作为失败对话生成器的方式。
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