The Bodily Deterritorialisation and Posthuman Body Politics in Nights at the Circus
The synthetic body,the informational body and the transboundary body are three major issues of posthuman body politics,which deterritorialise the boundaries of the human body at the physiological,material and cognitive levels.In Nights at the Circus,Angela Carter breaks the writing barriers of gender critique and focuses upon posthuman body politics,deterritorialising the human body through the creation of deformed bodies,transcorporeal bodies,and non-human bodies.With the help of bodily deterritorialisation,Carter deconstructs the traditional cognitive system of the body,disrupts the hierarchical order between species,dismantles the stable organisation of the body,and undermines a series of dichotomies such as abnormality and normality,human and animal,body and non-body.She questions the basis of anthropocentrism and the legitimacy of its ideas at the cognitive level.Her approach has the typical characteristics of posthumanist ideology.
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