占有的身体:奥克塔维亚·巴特勒的《血之子》和小詹姆斯·蒂普特里的《插电的女孩》中的创伤、生物力量和后人类

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María Ferrández San Miguel
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本文结合福柯的生物权力概念,运用创伤研究和后人类的强大战略视角来研究科幻小说,特别关注这些话语在化身和代理概念上的深刻投入。为了做到这一点,我将考虑奥克塔维亚·巴特勒1984年的短篇小说《血童》(雨果奖和星云奖)和小詹姆斯·蒂普特里(爱丽丝·谢尔登)1973年的中篇小说《插电的女孩》(雨果奖)。这两个故事都探索了反乌托邦的未来——它们一方面关注强制性的外星人和一个不适宜居住的星球上的生命,另一方面关注压迫性的消费文化和企业技术科学——并通过隐喻性的人物来说明和评论权力的表达和体现后人类的构建,从而指向我们的后人类。我认为,这两个故事的主要问题是,将生物权力与对人体的创伤性占有以及对它的后人类形式的抵制联系起来。关键词:创伤;新人类;生物动力;科幻小说;小詹姆斯·蒂普特里;奥克塔维亚巴特勒
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Appropriated Bodies: Trauma, Biopower and the Posthuman in Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” and James Tiptree, Jr.’s “The Girl Who Was Plugged In”
This article approaches science fiction using the strategically powerful perspectives of Trauma Studies and the posthuman in conjunction with Foucault’s notion of biopower, paying special attention to the deep investment of these discourses in notions of embodiment and agency. In order to do so, I will consider Octavia Butler’s 1984 short story “Bloodchild” (Hugo and Nebula Awards) and James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon)’s 1973 novella “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” (Hugo Award). Both stories explore dystopian futures—in their focus on coercive extraterrestrials and life on an inhospitable planet, on the one hand, and on oppressive consumer culture and corporate technoscience, on the other—and point back to our posthuman present through metaphoric characters that illustrate and invite comment upon the articulation of power and the construction of the embodied posthuman. The main issue at play in the two stories, I will contend, is the identification of biopower with the traumatic appropriation of the human body and the articulation of posthuman forms of resistance to it. Keywords: trauma; the posthuman; biopower; science fiction; James Tiptree, Jr.; Octavia Butler
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