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From Dystopia to Utopia: The Construction of Post-Human Life Community in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos
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Abstract
Kurt Vonnegut constructed a post-apocalyptic fantasy in Galápagos: after the extinction effects of technology abuse, war and ecological unbalance in the Capitalocene, the old human race cannot reproduce due to the plague, while the new human race comes to an island by “Noah's Ark” and evolves into seal-like animals, returning to nature and living in harmony with other species; it contains a profound criticism of the Anthropocene and a post-human ecological imagination of life forms. Based on the framework of subversion-reconstruction-prospect of life community, this paper explores the construction path of post-human life community. Finally, it is pointed out that the essence of this construction is the nomadic strategy of escape and the fantasy of absolute de-territorialization, but it reveals the vision and value of reconstructing the life community.
Keywords
Vonnegut, post-human, Galápagos, life community
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Chen,J. (2024). From Dystopia to Utopia: The Construction of Post-Human Life Community in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos. Advances in Humanities Research,6,19-23.
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