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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 4 / 2021  
         
  Article:   ‘TO SPEAK OF CATTLE IS TO SPEAK OF MAN’: ANTHROPARCHAL INTERACTIONS IN JOHN CONNELL’S THE FARMER’S SON.

Authors:  PAUL MIHAI PARASCHIV.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  DOI: 10.24193/subbphilo.2021.4.21

Published Online: 2021-12-15
Published Print: 2021-12-30
pp. 329-351

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Abstract: “To Speak of Cattle is to Speak of Man”: Anthroparchal Interactions in John Connell’s The Farmer’s Son. The present paper intends to build a critique of contemporary farming practices, based on Erika Cudworth’s theory of “anthroparchy.” By exemplifying how anthroparchal interactions function in John Connell’s memoir, I will outline the becoming of a posthuman farmer that awakens certain sensibilities towards nonhuman animals, in ways that compel a rethinking of gendered relations, patriarchy, violence, and capitalist interests. The analysis provides a needed insight into recent developments in Irish rural farming, detailing the position of the human subject in relation to nonhuman otherness and describing some of the changes that need to be made regarding the power relations that are at work within patriarchal systems. To this extent, Cudworth’s theoretical framework and Connell’s memoir are proven to be contributing to the necessary restructuring of farming practices and of human-nonhuman interactions.

Keywords: anthroparchy, posthumanism, gender relations, zoomorphism, capitalism, farming
 
         
     
         
         
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