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Title Morphing Subjectivities, Shifting Agencies: A Metamodern Perspective on American Science Fiction

Author(s) Ms. Zain-ul-Maqsood

Abstract ABSTRACT Morphing Subjectivities, Shifting Agencies: A Metamodern Perspective on American Science Fiction This study investigates human subjectivity and its manifestation from a metamodern perspective in the American science fiction digital series Orphan Black and its graphic novel adaptation. Keeping in line with the metamodern view, this thesis conceptualizes the said human subjectivity as an oscillation between two extremes inherent in the spectrum of self. This constant alternation results in an entity that is an amalgam of both positions. It yet does not have the characteristics of either of them, occupying a place that is not a place in the physical and spatial sense of the word. The continuous sway gives the subject the freedom to transcend the boundaries otherwise inherent in the two polarities, resulting in a multi-dimensional manifestation of self that can morph as and when required. The study also makes use of transmedia storytelling as an additional prong in the theoretical framework to comment on the form and medium of the selected texts and discusses how these play a key role in allowing the subjectivity to manifest multiply. To achieve its goal, the study employs textual analysis under the qualitative paradigm to analyze the selected works. The notion of multiple subjectivity is projected as human cloning in Orphan Black and, in doing so, the works reflect the multi-faceted nature of an individual in the contemporary digital age. The study explores how this multiplicity, and its consequences manifest and aims to develop an understanding of this natural order in the metamodernist world.

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Language English

Publication Date 2024-08-16

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Contributor(s) Dr. Sibghatullah Khan

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