Exploring Human-Animal Relations in William Bruce Cameron’s A Dog's Purpose: A Novel For Humans: A Critical Posthumanist Approach | ||||
| CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education | ||||
| Article 4, Volume 84, Issue 1, October 2023, Page 109-129 PDF (441.88 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/opde.2023.337474 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Ayman I. Elhalafawy | ||||
| Associate Prof. of English Literature Faculty of Arts, Kafrelsheikh University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This paper examines the critical concept of posthumanism through an analysis of William Bruce Cameron's novel A Dog's Purpose: A Novel For Humans (2010). Human-animal studies have the power to resist the supremacy of humanism. Thus, nonhuman animals are seen as a key participant in a challenge to humanism. They are also displayed as being the victims of anthropocentric humanism. Adopting an analytical approach, this paper is divided into two parts: theoretical and practical. Theoretically, posthumanism challenges the anthropocentric view of the world by decentering the human and acknowledging the agency and subjectivity of non-human beings, particularly animals. Practically, by focusing on the human-animal relations depicted in A Dog's Purpose, this study aims to explore how the novel disrupts traditional notions of human exceptionalism and highlights the interconnectedness between humans and animals. Through a posthuman lens, the paper investigates themes such as animal consciousness, empathy, and the ethical implications of human-animal interactions. Human-animal studies have the power to resist the supremacy of humanism. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| A Dog's Purpose; animal consciousness; Bruce Cameron; empathy; ethical implications; human-animal relations; posthumanism | ||||
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