‘A Little Beyond Human’: Expanding the Conceptualisation of the Human Subject in Carson’s Autobiography of Red.
Elizabeth Grosz states that the promise of posthumanist theory is ‘its ability to generate concepts that allow us to surround ourselves with the possibilities for being otherwise’.2 When Anne Carson translated the fragments of Stesichoros’ Geryoneis into a contemporary pseudo-autobiography, centred...
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University of Western Australia
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