Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2023
Abstract
This essay argues that rather than glamourising violence with its attendant linguistic registers, Marabou Stork Nightmares critiques Social Darwinism inherent in the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, yet it does not imagine possibilities of resistance and social transformation. Self-referential rhetoric equating right with might in conjunction with Social Darwinism creates the rhetoric of violence that naturalises the horrors of the novel embedded in hierarchical structures of domination on the grounds of race, class, and gender.