On death: vulnerability and resistance in "Drive your plow over the bones of the dead"
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2022v42p7-22Keywords:
violence, affection, animalityAbstract
The present work purports to analyze Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive your plow over the bones of the dead (2019), by focusing on the relations between vulnerability and resistance. Through the lenses of Critical Animal Studies as well as Judith Butler, Erinn Gilson, and Sarat Colling’s perspectives on the subject, the article examines the protagonist’s insubordination as she confronts an especisiest, ableist, and heteropatriarchal society.
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