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Ett liv utan djur är ett liv utan gud: En människa-djur studie analys av Kerstin Ekmans Vargskinnstrilogi
Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
2019 (Swedish)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 15 credits / 22,5 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

This essay applies human-animal studies in relation to the Swedish author Kerstin Ekman's books Guds barmhärtighet (1999), Sista Rompan (2002) and Skraplotter (2003) together called Vargskinnstrilogin. Kerstin Ekman's authorship is characterized by a coexistence between human, nature and animals where the stories entangle them into a dense complexity. As a reader, one is constantly reminded of this coexistence through Ekman's narrative approach as her stories contain many contact zones between humans and animals, which creates space for problematizing this entangled coexist from a posthumanistic perspective. The animals in the stories are at different distances to the human being based on their characteristics of being regarded as wild, domesticated or ferral. Based on these three categories, the wolf as a representative of the wild animals is analyzed in a theoretical context focusing on the function of different power structures within the anthropocentric paradigm. Ferral conditions are analyzed on the basis of, among other things, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's theories of animal-becomings, escape lines and rhizom where the dog mainly exists when it is embodied in close interaction with humans in Ekman's stories. The domesticated animals are analyzed on the basis of the tension between rural and urban, where the progress of the civil society are rapidly changing during the 20th century which creates changed relations between people and agricultural animals.

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2019. , p. 65
Keywords [en]
Kerstin Ekman, Vargskinnstrilogin, Human-animal studies, Posthumanism, Anthropocentrism, Wild wolfs, Feral identity, Contact zones, Patriarchy, Becoming with animals
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45282OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-45282DiVA, id: diva2:1548309
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Comparative Literature
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Humanities, Theology
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Available from: 2021-04-30 Created: 2021-04-30 Last updated: 2021-04-30Bibliographically approved

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