I think this novel provides a powerful and joyful navigation of what it means to become posthuman - perhaps by activating the suspicion that we might have never been human in the first place. In this article, I want to explore how the concept of “becoming-insect”, as developed in Lispector’s novel, puts into motion new ways of thinking about the posthuman condition. to immerse herself in the process of becoming the cockroach, coming to affirm the unity of all living matter from which she is only a minimal expression. This encounter with the insect leads G.H. This process of estrangement is triggered by G.H.’s discovery of an enormous cockroach creeping inside the wardrobe in the room where her housemaid used to sleep. Through a series of encounters with disruptive elements of what she used to think of as her identity, she enters a different domain of existence - one that goes beyond anything she had previously considered her self, and also beyond the traditional conception of the human - which is the domain of life, realizing that “the life that, in one, does not bear one’s own name is a force that connects one to all other living matter” (Braidotti 118). is the narration of a woman that loses herself and, in doing so, disorganizes the entire human world. If I confirm my self and consider myself truthful, I’ll be lost because I won’t know where to inlay my new way of being - if I go ahead with my fragmentary visions, the whole world will have to be transformed in order for me to fit within it.
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