136242 20240731105611.0 doi 10.1111/oli.12190 sideral 107987 ART-2018-107987 eng Calvo-Pascual, Mónica Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-3846-468X "The new children of the earth": Posthuman dystopia or a lesbian's dream in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl 2018 This article analyzes Larissa Lai''s novel Salt Fish Girl (2002) as a case of dystopian fiction marked by a concern with the dangers of the Anthropocene and the oppression of what lies beyond the scope of prescriptive definitions of humanity. Taking as point of departure Braidotti''s posthuman theory and her post-anthropocentric approach to embodied difference, I focus on the feminist and lesbian stance of Lai''s novel. For this purpose, I explore issues such as the characters'' zoe-centred, non-hierarchical fusion with nature, the link to the maternal through fish smell (traditionally associated with female genitalia, here reclaimed and embraced), together with the subversive potential of female bonding, and of alternative modes of motherhood and reproduction as opposed to hetero-patriarchal utilitarian techno-scientific control. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA-FSE/H03-17R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FFI2015-63506-P info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 0.109 2018 Literature and Literary Theory 2018 Q2 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 73, 5 (2018), 405-417 Orbis litt. Orbis Litterarum 0105-7510 410460 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/136242/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1126746 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/136242/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:136242 articulos driver 2024-07-31-09:21:22 ARTICLE