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Who Is a Good Dog? An Analysis of Negotiation of Identity in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Dogs of War

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Eberger, Magdalena

Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

Publicerad: 2026

Språk: Engelska

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⌕posthumanism⌕Marx⌕makt⌕Foucault⌕power⌕litteratur⌕literature⌕cyborg⌕Adrian Tchaikovsky⌕human/animal relationships⌕relationer mellan människor och djur

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the identity status of two cyborg characters in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Dogs of War (2017) are negotiated. Based on Marxist labor theory combined with a reading of Foucault's theory of power, three possible categories of identity status are defined: person, animal, and thing. I find that the political and coercive power that human characters have over the cyborg characters informs their treatment of the cyborgs, which in turn affects the negotiations of the Bioforms' identity status. The cyborgs negotiate their identity status mainly by exercising their agency, for example through covert acts of resistance while being treated as things, which in one case reverses a power relation.

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Författare
Eberger, Magdalena
Lärosäte / institution
Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)
Publiceringsdatum
2026
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Kandidat-uppsats
Språk
Engelska
Nyckelord
⌕posthumanism⌕Marx⌕makt⌕Foucault⌕power⌕litteratur⌕literature⌕cyborg⌕Adrian Tchaikovsky⌕human/animal relationships⌕relationer mellan människor och djur

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