Zamanpour, A;
(2019)
‘Creatureliness and Planetary Decadence in Rawi Hage’s Carnival’.
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Abstract
Rawi Hage’s illustration of the creaturely interdependence of humans in his 2013 novel Carnival emphasizes the vulnerability of the city’s underclass. Hage locates his postmodern subjects by imagining the figures of the displaced as urban insects/animals, and creating an epistemological shift and a step beyond the traditional engagement with ‘cosmopolitanism’. The metropolis in Carnival plays the role of an ecosphere wherein animals and insects crawl, hunt, and survive. Carnival considers the ‘creatureliness’ of human beings and the human-animal relations as a shared embodiedness. Hage focuses on their mutual vulnerability in the decaying world not by idealizing the appeal to nature, but by imagining an innovative perspective on the city’s decadence, its socioeconomic stratifications and the precarious condition of urban marginality. Carnival’s setting is a human-disturbed environment, and the story is an original narration into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival of the underlying pervasive animalistic life within the city.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | ‘Creatureliness and Planetary Decadence in Rawi Hage’s Carnival’ |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.1755-4527.100 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.1755-4527.100 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2019 Ali Zamanpour. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Decadence, Carnival, Rawi Hage, Creatureliness, Urban, Cosmopolitan, Animals, Dystopia |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10079981 |
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