Happy (m)Other’s Day: Raising Hybrid Kids in a Modern World
2023; Brill; Volume: 31; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1163/15685306-bja10124
ISSN1568-5306
Autores Tópico(s)Child Development and Digital Technology
ResumoHumans have a long history of identifying themselves as outsiders, outcasts, and others (see Hegel, 1807; Spivack, 1985), and as such are drawn to stories of those who don't quite 'fit in' with society.Nowhere is this more obvious than in recent decades of popular media, where stories of outcasts (everything from Salinger's 1951 Catcher in the Rye to Rowling's Harry Potter© empire), mutants (found in any corner of the Marvel™ or DC™ universes) and hybrids (i.e., HG Well's 1896 'children' from the Island of Dr. Moreau, the irreverent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™, and Aquaman™) rule the day.Two new tales have emerged which question our beliefs about these social others, how we construct family, and what makes us human.The upbeat Netflix series Sweet Tooth and the foreboding Icelandic film Lamb introduce viewers to two very different hybrid beings.While characters in both face similar arcs dealing with loss and abandonment, kinship, and the search for acceptance, the methods used to share their stories create completely different experiences. Sweet ToothSweet Tooth is perhaps the most environmentally relevant series on the market today, wrapped up in a postapocalyptic, yet funny, package.A plague has struck mankind, presenting first as a minor illness but quickly spiraling to mass
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