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Banerjee, Bidisha. "Kinship between “companion species”: A posthuman refiguration of the immigrant condition in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 52.(2016): 399–414. 
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Resource type: Journal Article
Language: en: English
Peer reviewed
DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2016.1228264
BibTeX citation key: Banerjee2016a
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Keywords: "The Arrival", Australia, Postcolonialism, Tan. Shaun
Creators: Banerjee
Collection: Journal of Postcolonial Writing
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Abstract
Academy Award-winning author and illustrator Shaun Tan’s 2007 graphic novel The Arrival poignantly tells the story of the typical immigrant experience. Tan creates an ostensibly alienating and unfamiliar terrain which may be described as a “posthuman landscape”. Instead of presenting the traditional native-versus-immigrant framework typical of diasporic stories, Tan chooses to delineate an inter-species relationship where the immigrant man is assisted by a native animal. An odd-looking creature becomes the protagonist’s guide in the new country and assists him in a myriad of ways throughout the story. This article explores the implications of such a relationship in the age of the Anthropocene where the privileged anthropocentrism of western humanism has been replaced by an egalitarianism of species. Using Donna Haraway’s notion of “companion species” and Rosi Braidotti’s recent articulation of the posthuman, it suggests a connection between the posthuman and the postcolonial in Tan’s text and thereby explores the significance of a non-human Other coming to the assistance of the immigrant Other within the space of a posthuman, postcolonial world. Thus the article seeks to study the reconfiguration of otherness in the face of incommensurable difference, and articulate its implications for diasporic thought.
  
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