âAn Animal Stateâ: the Human-Dog Entity in Kate Zambrenoâs Drifts (2020)

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This chapter proposes a reading of Kate Zambrenoâs Drifts (2020) focused on the symbiotic relationship established between the female autodiegetic narrator and Genet, her little black terrier. The emotional and physical bonds between woman and dog hint at the possibility of a human-dog entity, which destabilises the distinction between human and more-than-human animals, especially as the pregnant narrator gives over to an âanimal stateâ in which species difference is transcended. The female âIâ experiences being with child and merging with her animal as twin acts of renunciation of the selfâor, in her own terminology, of âdecreationââaimed at undermining the self-centred subject of humanism. Adopting a critical posthumanist perspective, I understand the household in which the relationship between the narrator and Genet is played out as a hybrid multispecies community. The dissolution of boundaries leads to shared meanings, interests, and affects, dismissing a utilitarian understanding of human-animal relations and confirming that an important meaning of companion species is to produce joy by spending time together. Finally, I contend that the representation of the animal subject becomes central to Zambrenoâs understanding of the literary act as a feminist creative enterprise based on overcoming the self and establishing a community.

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