Animal’s People and the Grotesque: Unnatural Narrativity, Power, and Protest

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dc.contributor.authorMansur, Visam
dc.contributor.authorVardar, Nergiz Öznur
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-31T15:04:24Z
dc.date.available2026-01-31T15:04:24Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.departmentİstanbul Beykent Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThis article examines Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People through the intersecting frameworks of grotesque realism and unnatural narrativity to explore how form and language mediate subaltern experience. Set in the aftermath of a fictionalized Bhopal disaster, the novel defies conventional narrative structures through a posthuman narrator, Animal, whose grotesque hybrid identity challenges anthropocentric and neoliberal paradigms. The analysis foregrounds how Sinha employs bodily imagery, obscenity, and narrative fragmentation to critique dominant institutions such as law, medicine, and global capitalism. Particular emphasis is placed on scenes of defecation, self-cannibalism, and grotesque sexuality, which serve as symbolic acts of resistance and protest. Drawing on theorists such as Bakhtin, Fludernik, and Richardson, among several others, the article interrogates the novel’s narrative inconsistencies, polyphonic structure, and the limits of representability for marginalized subjects. It argues that Animal’s People redefines narrative voice by merging the abject with the comic, the human with the animal, and the real with the unnatural. Ultimately, the study contributes to broader scholarly conversations in posthumanism, ecocriticism, and subaltern studies by illustrating how grotesque and unnatural elements challenge established boundaries of genre, voice, and power. © 2025 Hunan Normal University Press. All rights reserved.
dc.identifier.doi10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202502003
dc.identifier.endpage43
dc.identifier.issn2096-4374
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-105024129364
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ3
dc.identifier.startpage32
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202502003
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12662/10532
dc.identifier.volume9
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherHunan Normal University Press
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Foreign Languages and Cultures
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_Scopus_20260128
dc.subjectAnimal’s People
dc.subjectecological devastation
dc.subjectgrotesque realism
dc.subjectposthumanism
dc.subjectsocio-political landscape
dc.titleAnimal’s People and the Grotesque: Unnatural Narrativity, Power, and Protest
dc.typeArticle

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