Cinder, from Fairy Tale to Posthuman Tale
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Analyzing the male- and bourgeoisie-centered ideology implicated in the classic fairy tale of “Cinderella” and the posthuman perspectives of Marissa Meyer’s Cinder, this essay argues that Cinder rewrites the fairy tale into a posthuman tale, which synchronically represents the present and the future of technoscience. The text challenges the notion of purity that the Cinderella story ideologically supports through the cyborg protagonist Cinder, who responds to ontological and epistemological changes that technoscience requires. Cinder is suggested as the posthuman Cinderella that embodies the posthuman value of impurity or hybridity. Depicting the posthuman Cinderella who saves people rather than being saved, using not magic but science and technology, the posthuman tale of Cinder professes to be an articulator of the posthuman present and future.
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Analyzing the male- and bourgeoisie-centered ideology implicated in the classic fairy tale of “Cinderella” and the posthuman perspectives of Marissa Meyer’s Cinder, this essay argues that Cinder rewrites the fairy tale into a posthuman tale, which synchronically represents the present and the future of technoscience. The text challenges the notion of purity that the Cinderella story ideologically supports through the cyborg protagonist Cinder, who responds to ontological and epistemological changes that technoscience requires. Cinder is suggested as the posthuman Cinderella that embodies the posthuman value of impurity or hybridity. Depicting the posthuman Cinderella who saves people rather than being saved, using not magic but science and technology, the posthuman tale of Cinder professes to be an articulator of the posthuman present and future.
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