This article examines Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army (2007) in order to address how resistance can be reconceptualized beyond ideological and discursive frameworks and understood as a materially grounded, embodied activity. The article contends that Hall’s work emphasizes resistance as transcorporeal phenomena arising from the entanglement of human and nonhuman forces, in contrast to conventional readings of dystopian fiction that frequently favour political or psychological interpretations of resistance. In addition, this article examines how group labour, environmental interaction, and physical punishment influence the protagonist Sister’s transition from docility to agency, using posthuman feminist theory and Foucauldian biopolitics as its methodological framework. In the discussion, firstly, the political management of female bodies is examined. It is followed by tracing the process of embodied transformation and ended with displaying how a form of material resistance is made possible through environmental participation.
Gizem Altın Deniz (Thu,) studied this question.