Bodily Natures
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Basic Info
- Author: Stacy Alaimo
- Year: 2010
- Type: #secondary1
Summary (brief)
-Book addressing the dematerializing networks that cross through academic theory, popular culture, contemporary discourse, and everyday practices by focusing on the possibilities for more robust and complex conceptions of the materiality of human bodies and the more than human world (2).
Major Themes
Key Passages / Quotes
Quote 1
quote:: “the substance of the human body is ultimately inseparable from "the environment"”
page:: 2
themes:: trans-corporeality, monstrous-landscape
Quote 1
quote:: “Jacques Derrida (Vicki Kirby and Elizabeth Wilson), Michel Foucault (Ladelle McWorter and Karen Barad), and Judith Butler (Karen Barad). Together, these theorists, along with others, constitute the material turn in feminist theory, a wave of feminist theory that takes matter seriously"”
page:: 6
themes:: trans-corporeality
critical-question:: Creed, Alaimo, Kristeva, Derrida
Quote 1
quote:: “places serve as the condition of all living things"”
page:: 8
themes:: trans-corporeality, monstrous-landscape
critical-question:: monstrous-depictions, interiority
Genre Notes
- Material Memoirs: "environmental memoirs in which the material world becomes the very substance of the self, and the volatile scientific and political struggles to define or dismiss the syndrome of multiple chemical sensitivity" (3).
- #Memoir
Characters / Concepts (if relevant)
Theory Connections
Related Texts
- Blood and Guts in High School (cancer scare)
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Derrida
My Argument / Interpretation
Dissertation Relevance
How could this matter to my project?
-Alaimo discusses material memoirs - these accounts argue that one person's individual truth does count as scientific data; It reminds me of the way confession can be used as valid data; #trans-corporeality intersects with #autofiction because both are a bodily entanglement. writing about illness, addiction or trauma maps how external, social, economic & environmental systems physically manifest inside flesh.