Carissa Smith

Cyborg Saints (eBook, PDF)

Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429510366
• Artikelnr.: 57619356

Autorenporträt

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