A pioneer in the ethical traceability of products of animal origin: Marguerite Yourcenar

Author(s)

  • May Chehab University of Cyprus

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51777/relief12347

Keywords:

Traceability, ethics, Marguerite Yourcenar, animal, Anti-speciesism, ecocriticism

Abstract

Convinced that the unity of humanity is that of a biological species that we cannot extract from all the forms of non-human life which constitute much more than its "environment", Marguerite Yourcenar tries in her work to restore the lost porosity between the human world and the so-called animal species. In this process, she creates a kind of “ethical tracing” going back from the finished animal product to its living origin, which opposes the almost exclusively utilitarian and anthropocentric motives of the commercial traceability.

Author Biography

  • May Chehab, University of Cyprus

    May Chehab is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Cyprus. She has been a Research Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of Cergy-Pontoise, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Princeton and Jean Monnet Professor for History of European Integration. Her publications include monographies (Saint-John Perse, neveu de Nietzsche, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2009), edited or coedited collective volumes (Auto/biographie : prémonitions, rêves, cauchemars, with Beatrice Barbalato, Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2021; Le(s) Style(s) de Marguerite Yourcenar, siey, Clermont-Ferrand, 2015; AutoBioPhagies in collaboration with A. Lampropoulos with the participation of Philippe Lejeune, Peter Lang, 2011), and about a hundred articles and dictionary entries on today’s Antiquity, new Autobiography, interaction between Science, Philosophy and Literature, and European Studies.

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Published

2022-07-08

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2022): Crossed views on francophone literature & ecology

Section

Articles - thematic dossier

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How to Cite

“A pioneer in the ethical traceability of products of animal origin: Marguerite Yourcenar” (2022) RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 16(1), pp. 126–135. doi:10.51777/relief12347.