The Personal and the Planetary: Gendering Ecology in Theis Ørntoft’s Solar
Abstract This paper considers the environmental and gender politics of Theis Ørntoft’s Solar (2018). Much criticism of Solar has focused on its depiction of consumer capitalism in the Anthropocene. As the novel deconstructs its first person narrator—evoking theories of romanticism and po...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Danish |
| Published: |
Scandinavian University Press
2020-01-01
|
| Series: | Edda |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://www.idunn.no/edda/2020/04/the_personal_and_the_planetary_gendering_ecology_in_theis_ |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Summary: | Abstract
This paper considers the environmental and gender politics of
Theis Ørntoft’s Solar (2018). Much criticism of Solar has
focused on its depiction of consumer capitalism in the Anthropocene.
As the novel deconstructs its first person narrator—evoking theories
of romanticism and poststructuralism—it seems to forward an ecologically
progressive, posthumanist politics. I argue, however, that the novel’s
preoccupation with structure and surface is underpinned by a regressive,
binary conception of gender and an autonomous, masculine subject,
which undermines its potential anti-anthropocentric thrust. This
reading contributes to existing perspectives on Solar and
explores key intersections between gender and ecocriticism. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 0013-0818 1500-1989 |