AQUEOUS POSTHUMAN FEMINISM IN PAOLO BACIGALUPI'S THE WATER KNIFE

Abstract

Climate fiction has intractably delved into the ecological dismay about the imminent disastrous repercussions of anthropogenic climate change. The posthuman propensities of these texts actualized by the depiction of imaginative worlds digressing from manifest conditions subvert anthropocentric standpoints and point out nonhuman agencies. Detailed analysis of climate fictions by employing feminist posthumanist figurations foregrounding a feminist ethic of difference, mutuality and care can bring to light their potential to offer imaginative realms outside the fallacies of human supremacy. The present work endeavours a watery incursion into Paolo Bacigalupi's The Water Knife and attempts to view it through posthumanist feminist aqueous imagery put forward by the cultural theorist Astrida Neimanis. It also explores how water in the novel engenders a fresh imaginative space through its diversified techniques.