Animal metaphor : animality in discourses of nuclear war and species extinction.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Gerber, Matthew G. | |
| dc.creator | Rooney, David Aaron, 1995- | |
| dc.creator.orcid | 0000-0001-8363-3230 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-04T18:33:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-04T18:33:21Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2020-05 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-04-27 | |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2020 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2020-09-04T18:33:22Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2104/11004 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | No access - contact librarywebmaster@baylor.edu | |
| dc.subject | Animal. Nuclear war. Climate change. Metaphor. Derrida. | |
| dc.title | Animal metaphor : animality in discourses of nuclear war and species extinction. | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.material | text | |
| local.embargo.lift | 2025-05-01 | |
| local.embargo.terms | 2025-05-01 | |
| thesis.degree.department | Baylor University. Dept. of Communication. | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Baylor University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | M.A. |
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