I sing the body dystopic: Utopia and posthuman corporeality in P.D. James’s The Children of Men

Autores

  • Eduardo Marks de Marques Universidade Federal de Pelotas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2013n65p29

Resumo

 

The resurgence of novels dealing with dystopian cosmogonies since the 1990s may reveal a newtrend in Utopian Studies. If classical dystopia was defined by the imposition of collective political and social structures upon the individual and out of which there was no escape (as constructed, mainly, by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four), these contemporary dystopian novels critically construct posthuman societies where the focus is on the development of the dystopian body, which questions andreinvents the very definitions of humanity. This article aims at examining theeffects of posthuman critique upon the construction of the dystopian body in P.D. James’s novel The Children of Men.

Biografia do Autor

Eduardo Marks de Marques, Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Professor Adjunto de Literaturas de Língua Inglesa no Centro de Letras e Comunicação da Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel) e Pós-Doutorando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Literários da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG).

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Publicado

2013-12-19