Futurité Queer entre l’humain et le non-humain dans L’avenir de Catherine Leroux

Abstract

This article examines Catherine Leroux’s L’avenir (2020) through the lens of queer futurity and queer ecology. Drawing on the works of José Esteban Muñoz, Nicole Seymour, and Malcom Ferdinand, it highlights how Leroux reimagines the relationships between humans and non-humans, community and environment, within a world shaped by urban decline and ecological crisis. Through a poetics of porosity and vitality, the novel blurs the boundaries between nature and culture, childhood and humanity, realism and the supernatural. It explores the possibility of coexistence rather than filiation, where the repair of the world emerges through unexpected alliances between human and non-human life. While not fully belonging to this corpus, L’avenir resonates with the broader field of queer speculative fiction in Quebec, opening a space of critical imagination where literature becomes a site of ethical and relational experimentation.