Anxiety Caused by Too Many Cats in Bohumil Hrabal’s “All My Cats”
All My Cats is an autobiographical novel representing Hrabal’s fatal anxiety from the potential mental conflict with domesticated animals. This article examines the concept of anxiety and the potential for domesticated animals, in this example, cats, to exert agency and impact the lives of their own...
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Center of Language Development, Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Madura
2023-05-01
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| description | All My Cats is an autobiographical novel representing Hrabal’s fatal anxiety from the potential mental conflict with domesticated animals. This article examines the concept of anxiety and the potential for domesticated animals, in this example, cats, to exert agency and impact the lives of their owners in autobiographical literature. Bohumil Hrabal's All My Cats has been selected due to the prominence of literary signifiers of anxiety, his ambivalent attitude toward cats (love and hate) throughout the text, and Hrabal’s specific interpretation of what his cats did for him and to him in emotional terms. The methodology selected does not presuppose that cats, or animals in the broader sense, possess agency on an equal footing with humans. Rather, they can exist in an interdependent or collaborative state with humans. This may be seen as a form of an unwritten social contract between animals and humans in a domestic setting. In the case of Hrabal and his cats, his perception of his cats and what they attempt to communicate to him is most interesting in this regard, particularly when viewed through the lens of anxiety and the literary signifier. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-070dd5864fc1454e875d8dd1f62b8f312023-06-07T00:57:14ZaraCenter of Language Development, Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) MaduraOkara: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra1907-624X2442-305X2023-05-01171698410.19105/ojbs.v17i1.86198619Anxiety Caused by Too Many Cats in Bohumil Hrabal’s “All My Cats”Edward Owen Teggin0Yostiani Noor Asmi Harini1Department of History, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Diponegoro, Tembalang, Semarang 50275Study Programs of Indonesian Language and Literature, Faculty of Language and Literature Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung 40145All My Cats is an autobiographical novel representing Hrabal’s fatal anxiety from the potential mental conflict with domesticated animals. This article examines the concept of anxiety and the potential for domesticated animals, in this example, cats, to exert agency and impact the lives of their owners in autobiographical literature. Bohumil Hrabal's All My Cats has been selected due to the prominence of literary signifiers of anxiety, his ambivalent attitude toward cats (love and hate) throughout the text, and Hrabal’s specific interpretation of what his cats did for him and to him in emotional terms. The methodology selected does not presuppose that cats, or animals in the broader sense, possess agency on an equal footing with humans. Rather, they can exist in an interdependent or collaborative state with humans. This may be seen as a form of an unwritten social contract between animals and humans in a domestic setting. In the case of Hrabal and his cats, his perception of his cats and what they attempt to communicate to him is most interesting in this regard, particularly when viewed through the lens of anxiety and the literary signifier.http://ejournal.iainmadura.ac.id/index.php/okara/article/view/8619anxietyagencyabsurditybohumil hrabalsocial contracts |
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| title | Anxiety Caused by Too Many Cats in Bohumil Hrabal’s “All My Cats” |
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