Published: 2024-10-16

The Norms of Non-Human Disability. The Case of Anna Augustyniak’s Poems

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Section: varia - follow-ups and anticipations
https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.15549

Abstract

In this article, referring to Sunaura Taylor’s research on disability as a construct also imposed on non-human animals, I propose a critical reading of Anna Augustyniak’s book of poems entitled Między nami zwierzętami [Between Us Animals] (2020), whose reception was relatively favorable, but which has not yet been read from consistently non-anthropocentric positions. I demonstrate that by detailing the various practices of violence against animals, the author not only employed familiar tricks but, above all, deeply marginalized and appropriated the perspective of non-human victims, clearly highlighting her own experiences. This leads to the normalization of victimizing and ableist notions of animals as deprived of autonomy, weak, dependent, and ultimately, disabled beings, thus counteracting the liberation of animals on their own terms.

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Jarzyna, A. (2024). The Norms of Non-Human Disability. The Case of Anna Augustyniak’s Poems. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (49), 231–248. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.15549

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No. 49 (2024)
Published: 2024-12-30


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

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University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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