163227 20251107103408.0 doi 10.1093/cww/vpae036 sideral 145686 ART-2025-145686 eng Calvo-Pascual, Mónica Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-3846-468X Herland’s Speculative Fiction Offspring: New Materialist Posthuman Ethics in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl and The Tiger Flu 2025 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This essay explores Larissa Lai’s dystopian speculative fiction through the lenses of Karen Barad’s theory of intra-action, Stacy Alaimo’s notion of transcorporeal material ethics, Jane Bennett’s vital materialism, and Rosi Braidotti’s postanthropocentric, Spinozist revision of Giorgio Agamben’s notion of bare life or zoe. Lai’s feminist posthuman communities, intrinsically embodied and embedded in nature, hold a position of resistance within the overall context of the anthropogenic destruction of the environment. Zoe-centered egalitarianism materializes in their interspecies enmeshment and horizontal relations with the more-than-human as unexpected material intra-actions enable their posthuman being and becoming. Furthermore, those communities lie beyond the grasp of the reproductive futurism that has been adduced as a feature of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s controversial utopia Herland. info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess by-nc-nd https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa Contemporary Women's Writing 1754-1476 331878 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/163227/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2026-10-07 1174841 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/163227/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2026-10-07 oai:zaguan.unizar.es:163227 articulos driver 2025-11-07-10:32:23 ARTICLE