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Daniel Defoe’s Storm, Description, and Posthumanist Narrative of Disaster
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This article claims that we can find posthumanist possibilities in Daniel Defoe’s use of “description” in The Storm (1704) as a technique which levels off the differences between human and non-human agents. A few critics have indicated that The Storm, in contrast to A Journal of the Plague Year, lacks literary value due to its striking absence of a sympathetic gaze toward human suffering and tragedy during the great storm in 1703. However, I argue that this very lack of humanity in The Storm encapsulates Defoe’s authorial strategy to create the posthumanist narrative of disaster in which every being affected by the storm—houses, ships, trees, bricks, and people—is given an equal measure of attention. By linking the theory of narrative with posthumanist theory, this article demonstrates the power of “description” in The Storm that treats humans as things and things as humans. Also, The Storm’s posthumanist gesture strikingly contrasts with the self-centeredness of the protagonists in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Roxana who commonly exhibit human-centric interpretations of the storm at sea.
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This article claims that we can find posthumanist possibilities in Daniel Defoe’s use of “description” in The Storm (1704) as a technique which levels off the differences between human and non-human agents. A few critics have indicated that The Storm, in contrast to A Journal of the Plague Year, lacks literary value due to its striking absence of a sympathetic gaze toward human suffering and tragedy during the great storm in 1703. However, I argue that this very lack of humanity in The Storm encapsulates Defoe’s authorial strategy to create the posthumanist narrative of disaster in which every being affected by the storm—houses, ships, trees, bricks, and people—is given an equal measure of attention. By linking the theory of narrative with posthumanist theory, this article demonstrates the power of “description” in The Storm that treats humans as things and things as humans. Also, The Storm’s posthumanist gesture strikingly contrasts with the self-centeredness of the protagonists in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Roxana who commonly exhibit human-centric interpretations of the storm at sea.
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