Of Posthuman Dragons and Sympoietic Solarities: An Ecocritical Analysis of the Figure of the Dragon in Early Solarpunk Fiction
Authors
Rivero Vadillo, AlejandroDate
2023-06-09Bibliographic citation
Revista Hélice, 2023, v. 9, n. 1, p. 36-53
Keywords
Posthumanism
Solarpunk
Chthulucene
Dragons
Science-fantasy
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
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Abstract
This article analyses the posthuman aspects of the role of dragons in the construction of solar-powered architectures within two solarpunk short stories, M. Pax?s ?Wings of the Guiding Suns? and Danny Mitchell?s ?Dragon?s Oath.? These two stories from the early solarpunk anthology Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragon Anthology (2015) mix fantasy tropes with solarpunk eco-optimistic spaces, producing what can be described as ?solarity.? These two stories are particularly relevant to discussing posthuman landscapes in science fiction; their dragons are not only ?posthumanly? related to humans (and other species), but they are also constructed as landscapes themselves. This article subsequently reflects on how Donna Haraway?s sense of posthumanism (specifically her notions of sympoiesis, kinmaking and the Chthulucene) may be employed as an analytical framework to understand the ecological proposals and posthumanist debates latent in solarpunk narratives.
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