![]() ![]() However, Katniss returns to survey the damage and is shocked to find the cat alive. Later, District 12 is bombed and ‘Buttercup the cat’ is presumed to have died alongside District 12’s entire population. ![]() However, Prim cries, Katniss stops, and the cat survives. When her sister, Primrose, brings the cat home, Katniss says she does not want “another mouth to feed” (Collins, The Hunger Games 3) and tries to drown him in a bucket. In the first few pages of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen reveals she almost killed a cat. The Haunting Significance of ‘Buttercup the Cat’ Mourning in this sense parallels the diffractive reading process as productive and affirming, rather than negative and critically consumed with absence. As an example of diffractive reading practice, this analysis of The Hunger Games is an iterative reworking of Barad’s framework that ultimately positions mourning as an (intra-)act of constructive remembrance. A growing body of criticism undertakes posthumanist and queer readings of young adult fiction to explore central themes, including life/death, human/animal, and future/past. This diffractive reading explores Karen Barad’s meditation on quantum mechanics as an emerging branch of literary criticism. Juxtaposing the ‘real’ dead-alive cat featured in Collins’ young adult fiction series alongside Schrödinger's hypothetical one provides an opportunity to understand quantum ontology differently. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge: Issue 37 (2021) Schrödinger’s Katniss: A Diffractive Reading of Quantum Entanglement and The Hunger Games Rosie ClarkeĪbstract: Can a close reading of The Hunger Games shed new light on Schrödinger's thought experiment? When read diffractively, both Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games series and Erwin Schrödinger's Cat Paradox privilege indeterminacy and (im)probability in ways that affirm posthuman understandings of identity. ![]()
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