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In the Margins of Representation: A Critique of Plascencia's The People of Paper

Creator:

Turk, Tully

Abstract:

This thesis explores the common features that unite postcolonial and posthumanist theories, finding that the Cartesian notion of representationalism has enabled the humanist hierarchy that both fields decry. This humanist hierarchy coalesces in the figure of the author, and as such its most effective criticism takes the form of metafiction....

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis