Unruly Bodies: Queer Taxonomies and Trans-Species Becomings
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This article considers the social impact of classification systems from a queer multispecies perspective and turns to speculative literary realms to shake the epistemic foundations of western taxonomy. By embracing a transecological ethics informed by critical animal studies, the article analyzes the creative works of Oliver Baez Bendorf, Callum Angus, and Nathan Adler and the ways in which they map a territory of interspecies kinship and queer liberation in relationally mutual terms. The article argues that these narratives of fluid transition across species lines evoke dreams of interspecies solidarity against epistemic oppression, enabled by shapeshifting motifs and a language of corporeal reciprocity, while also prompting readers to envision multispecies kinship as the future of humanity in its becoming.
Source: Transpositiones
Author: Elizabeth Tavella
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4403137023