Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction; Cyborg Saints makes the radical claim that these holy medieval figures are actually the new cyborgs, in that they dethrone the autonomous subject of humanist modernity.
Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction; Cyborg Saints makes the radical claim that these holy medieval figures are actually the new cyborgs, in that they dethrone the autonomous subject of humanist modernity.
Carissa Turner Smith is Professor of English at Charleston Southern University.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Chapter One: Neomedievalist Saints and the Embodiment of Hagiographic History Chapter Two: Cyborg Saints, Born and Made Chapter Three: "Are We Not All Things?": Relics, Posthumanist Agency, and Intersubjectivity Chapter Four: The Virgin Martyr of Comics: Distributed Agency and Saintly Iconography Chapter Five: Posthumanist Pilgrimage: Trans-corporeal Journeys Chapter Six: "Holy Dog!": Animal Studies, Tolerance Discourse, and Posthumanist Ethics Conclusion References Index
Introduction Chapter One: Neomedievalist Saints and the Embodiment of Hagiographic History Chapter Two: Cyborg Saints, Born and Made Chapter Three: "Are We Not All Things?": Relics, Posthumanist Agency, and Intersubjectivity Chapter Four: The Virgin Martyr of Comics: Distributed Agency and Saintly Iconography Chapter Five: Posthumanist Pilgrimage: Trans-corporeal Journeys Chapter Six: "Holy Dog!": Animal Studies, Tolerance Discourse, and Posthumanist Ethics Conclusion References Index
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