Alice in Wonderland 🧚🏻‍♀️

Zoopoetics, a concept from Derrida, explores how nonhuman animals communicate, contrasting with human speech.

In the story, animals like the Cheshire Cat and the White Rabbit communicate in unique ways.

Time is anthropomorphized as a character and critiqued as a social construct, presenting dream time as an alternative to clock time.

Dream time challenges the conventional, linear perception of time, promoting a world of leisure, play, and alternative realities.

The Cheshire Cat exemplifies the limitrophic quality, where the cat's behavior and independence challenge Alice’s human-centered perspective.

It suggests a return to societal norms, with Alice placed back into a childlike, simple position, contrasting the radical possibilities presented in Wonderland.

-> state under her sister’s care, seeming to close off the radical questioning of categories and roles introduced in Wonderland (conservative frame despite radical themes?)

The Queen of Hearts, seen as authoritarian and frightening, mirrors Queen Victoria's opposition to the women's movement and marriage reform.