The Language of Madness and Unreason: A Posthumanist Discourse in Zerald Vizenor’s Dead Voices
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The paper explores a posthumanist discourse in Zerald Vizenor’s Dead Voices, which features a critique on the inanimateness of civilization, projects the de-aestheticization of nature, and facilitates the mythos of madness and unreason. The humanist approach that tends to locate humans in the center of the world is being deconstructed in the post-structuralist discourse of the text, as the identities and attributes of humans are being reexamined through the process of demystification. The animals feature the ancient spirits of native American myth, and their characters are being de-aestheticized in the text narrative, in terms that they are lawful residents of the Earth and as real as humans. In addition, Bagese plays the role as a native American shaman who facilitates, with her distinctiveness, the animateness in the inanimate world of Western culture, countering the rationalistic ideologies of modern civilization and connecting the two groups (humans and animals) in a very demystifying way. Her soul tends to activate the mythos of the posthuman, as opposed to the logic of the human, as readers become aware of the contentious issue of what reality means in her magic. Bagese is a posthuman figure, a demystified kind of shaman who is bold enough to blur the line between the corporal and the spiritual in the dichotomous/dualistic world of humanist philosophy.
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The paper explores a posthumanist discourse in Zerald Vizenor’s Dead Voices, which features a critique on the inanimateness of civilization, projects the de-aestheticization of nature, and facilitates the mythos of madness and unreason. The humanist approach that tends to locate humans in the center of the world is being deconstructed in the post-structuralist discourse of the text, as the identities and attributes of humans are being reexamined through the process of demystification. The animals feature the ancient spirits of native American myth, and their characters are being de-aestheticized in the text narrative, in terms that they are lawful residents of the Earth and as real as humans. In addition, Bagese plays the role as a native American shaman who facilitates, with her distinctiveness, the animateness in the inanimate world of Western culture, countering the rationalistic ideologies of modern civilization and connecting the two groups (humans and animals) in a very demystifying way. Her soul tends to activate the mythos of the posthuman, as opposed to the logic of the human, as readers become aware of the contentious issue of what reality means in her magic. Bagese is a posthuman figure, a demystified kind of shaman who is bold enough to blur the line between the corporal and the spiritual in the dichotomous/dualistic world of humanist philosophy.
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