Dede, Demet Karabulut

This article traces the transmission of affect between the Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in William Golding’s The Inheritors which begins the process of individuation in the Neanderthal characters, Lok and Fa. Focusing in particular on the encounter with ‘the other’, I elucidate how mediation of affect between these groups turns the crisis of encounter into a debate about the innocence and fall of human beings, and about how historical continuities are transmitted through silences, gaps, and omissions of some people or some thoughts.

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