| dc.contributor |
Gerber, Matthew G. |
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| dc.creator |
Rooney, David Aaron, 1995- |
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| dc.date |
2020-09-04T18:33:21Z |
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| dc.date |
2020-09-04T18:33:21Z |
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| dc.date |
2020-05 |
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| dc.date |
2020-04-27 |
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| dc.date |
May 2020 |
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| dc.date |
2020-09-04T18:33:22Z |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2022-05-18T12:12:56Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2022-05-18T12:12:56Z |
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| dc.identifier |
https://hdl.handle.net/2104/11004 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/29578 |
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| dc.description |
This thesis analyzes the role animals play as objects of human discourse—in particular, their use as metaphor. This thesis examines two distinct animal metaphors. First, I examine the use of animal metaphor in nuclear war rhetoric to concretize a sense of catastrophe following the collapse of Mutually Assured Destruction. Second, I examine the use of animal metaphor in the cinematic context to persuade audiences to act more rapidly and aggressively on climate change. In both contexts, animal metaphors operate to animate a sense of human vulnerability such that it becomes desirable to separate oneself from a perceived animal openness to violence and catastrophe. This animating process simultaneously racializes the figure of the animal that troubles the presumed boundary between human and animal. Throughout this thesis I will complicate this often-assumed distinction between human and animal, revealing those categories to be co-constitutively and metaphorically related. |
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application/pdf |
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application/pdf |
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application/pdf |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.rights |
No access - contact librarywebmaster@baylor.edu |
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| dc.subject |
Animal. Nuclear war. Climate change. Metaphor. Derrida. |
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| dc.title |
Animal metaphor : animality in discourses of nuclear war and species extinction. |
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| dc.type |
Thesis |
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text |
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