英文摘要 |
In Richard Powers’s Gain, the small town of Lacewood abruptly rises up as a matter of course; the author uses a far-and-near perspective to sketch the rural life of Laura Brodey working in her garden, her home and as well the ever present “garden” of Clare International up until the point that Laura suddenly contracts cancer. The narrative develops along two important lines: one is the rise of Claire and in the process of development one case of environmental pollution that happens; the second is the relationship between the daily life of Laura and the objects she comes in contact with. For this study, the main issue of the story is “What role do the objects we have never inquired into play?” Latour holds that the actors/actants and the environment are not two parallel lines. He also says that what originally was considered “a matter of fact” is actually a “matter of concern” and then a “matter of care.” This paper combines Latour’s object theory and Stacy Alaimo’s theory of transcorporeality so that the reader can reread Powers’s novel and the implications of the toxicants produced by capitalism that utilizes slow violence to cunningly invade the body and the environment. |