Religijna materialność świata w powieści Grace McCleen Świat Judyty
The religious materiality of the world in the novel The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the novel The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen’s applying elementsof selected posthumanist theories, mainly object-oriented ontology (G. Harman, T. Morton) andnew materialism (J. Bennett). It considers the assumption that in the novel, the ontological status ofhuman beings as well as material objects is fluid, as both play the role of a prop and the entity ma-nipulating the prop. The author focuses on the main character’s religious cognitive perspective andher relations with her (im)material surroundings. An attempt is made to point out certain similaritiesbetween the religious worldview and the posthumanist approach. To this end, the author discussesseveral issues related to the dualistic categories of material vs. immaterial, rational vs. irrational, aswell as human vs. non-human.

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