'I must climb inside the skin of the girl': Becoming Posthuman in British Fiction 1950-1980

这个项目将死后体现的理论与战后英国小说中的性别表现联系起来，承认嵌入的关系身体在穆里尔·斯帕克、芭芭拉·科米恩斯、芭芭拉·皮姆和安吉拉·卡特的小说中是一个激进的存在。我的方法有助于对小说中的成为主体的新理解，它跨越了人类和死后的存在概念的边缘。该项目与吉勒斯·德勒兹的形而上学和女权主义新唯物主义理论合作，揭示了一种新兴的后遗主义的存在，其特征是时刻到时刻的现实化和不断变化的物质性。通过对性别主题的特别关注，它证明了死后成为可以从人类范式中实现，将人和死后的人带入批判性对话。在这样做的过程中，它阐明了从这一时期的小说到自由人文主义的前所未有的挑战，这种挑战既包括对性别权力的批判，也包括超越男性/女性和人/死后的二元性的关系。研究问题是：1.小说如何在人类范式中体现死后成为主体？2.跨越人与非人类之间边界的相互关联的身体在小说中扮演什么角色？3.小说中的叙事与身体之间的关系是什么，挑战了人的范畴？4.对这一时期小说的调查告诉我们，在战后文化中，人是如何概念化的？

This project links theories of posthuman embodiment and representations of gender in postwar British fiction by recognising an embedded, relational body as a radical presence in the fiction of Muriel Spark, Barbara Comyns, Barbara Pym and Angela Carter. My approach facilitates a new understanding of the becoming-subject in fiction that spans the margins of human and posthuman conceptions of being. The project works with the metaphysics of Gilles Deleuze and the theories of Feminist New Materialism to uncover the presence of an emerging posthumanism, characterised by moment-to-moment actualisation and shifting materiality. In paying particular attention to the gendered subject, it demonstrates that a posthuman becoming is realisable from within a human paradigm, bringing human and posthuman into critical conversation. In doing so, it articulates a previously unheard challenge from fiction of this period to liberal humanism, a challenge which integrates both a critique of gendered power and a relationality which transcends the dualities of masculine/feminine and human/posthuman.The research questions are:1. How does fiction embody a posthuman becoming-subject within a human paradigm?2. What is the role of an interconnected body in fiction which crosses the boundary between human and nonhuman?3. What is the relationship between narrative and the body in fiction which challenges the category of human?4. What does an investigation of fiction from this period tell us about how the human is conceptualised in post-war culture?