Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture

Herausgeber: Karkulehto, Sanna; Varis, Essi; Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa

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Produktbeschreibung

The emphasis of the inquiry in Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780367197476
• ISBN-10: 0367197472
• Artikelnr.: 57369148

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman: Striving for More
Ethical Cohabitation
Section 1: Towards Posthumanist Literature and Posthumanist Reading
Chapter 2: On the Possibility of Posthuman-ist Literature
Chapter 3: Posthumanist Reading: Witnessing Ghosts, Summoning Powers
Chapter 4: Becoming-instrument: Thinking with Jeff VanderMeer's
Annihilation and Timothy Morton's Hyperobjects
Section 2: Imagining Alien Experiences
Chapter 5: Alien Overtures: Speculating about Nonhuman Experiences with
Comic Book Characters
Chapter 6: Playing the Nonhuman: Alien Experiences in Aliens vs. Predator
Section 3: Becoming with Animals
Chapter 7: Dead Dog Talking: Posthumous, Preposthumous, and Preposterous
Canine Narration in Charles Sierbert's Angus
Chapter 8: Carnivorous Anatomies: Art and Being Beasts
Chapter 9: Connecting Difference: A Human/Guide Dog Assemblage
Section 4: Technological (Co-)Agencies
Chapter 10: Meeting the Machine Halfway: Towards Non-anthropocentric
Semiotics
Chapter 11: Human and Nonhuman Co-Agency, Neuropower and Counterplay in
Minecraft
Chapter 12: Cyborganic Wearables: Sociotechnical Misbehavior and the
Evolution of Nonhuman Agency
Section 5: Afterword: Unnarratable Matter?
Chapter 13: Unnarratable Matter: Emergence, Narrative, and Material
Ecocriticism