De l’autre côté de la barrière. Franchir la frontière entre l’homme et l’animal avec le Roman de Renart
Over the last years, the human-animal border came under increasing scrutiny, in a context of rising posthumanist concerns. Since every border implies a human appropriation of space, the metaphysical human-animal border materializes itself in the closure. But what happens when nonhuman animals cross...
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| description | Over the last years, the human-animal border came under increasing scrutiny, in a context of rising posthumanist concerns. Since every border implies a human appropriation of space, the metaphysical human-animal border materializes itself in the closure. But what happens when nonhuman animals cross the border, when they invade a space that was forbidden to them by the closure, and when humans themselves imagine what is going on across the border – in the sensorial territory of animal life? This article interrogates the instable caesura between the human and the beast and its modes of spatialization, through the entangled incursions of the human into the animal territory and the animal into the human space. I depart from the Roman de Renart, an Old French romance staging a gallery of anthropomorphized animals evolving alternatively through wilderness and domesticated spaces, while they constantly switch between human and bestial features and behaviors. I offer to read theory under the angle of medieval literature and, following the Renart’s authors’ invitation, to perceive the world through the eyes of a beast. Against an overhanging posture of objectivity, I propose an alternative conception of animality as reappropriation of the human-animal border, through literary imagination and self-displacement. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f5c6a5c190f4438c868ac73323de1bb22025-01-09T12:57:25ZengUniversité Lumière Lyon 2Frontière·s2534-75352021-06-01410.35562/frontieres.599De l’autre côté de la barrière. Franchir la frontière entre l’homme et l’animal avec le Roman de RenartAnthony RevelleOver the last years, the human-animal border came under increasing scrutiny, in a context of rising posthumanist concerns. Since every border implies a human appropriation of space, the metaphysical human-animal border materializes itself in the closure. But what happens when nonhuman animals cross the border, when they invade a space that was forbidden to them by the closure, and when humans themselves imagine what is going on across the border – in the sensorial territory of animal life? This article interrogates the instable caesura between the human and the beast and its modes of spatialization, through the entangled incursions of the human into the animal territory and the animal into the human space. I depart from the Roman de Renart, an Old French romance staging a gallery of anthropomorphized animals evolving alternatively through wilderness and domesticated spaces, while they constantly switch between human and bestial features and behaviors. I offer to read theory under the angle of medieval literature and, following the Renart’s authors’ invitation, to perceive the world through the eyes of a beast. Against an overhanging posture of objectivity, I propose an alternative conception of animality as reappropriation of the human-animal border, through literary imagination and self-displacement.https://journals.openedition.org/frontieres/599 |
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