Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Baelo-Allué, Sonia; Calvo-Pascual, Mónica

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection explores the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in key narratives written in the second decade of the 21st century. From a critical posthumanist perspective the scholars in this collection analyse the aesthetic choices these authors make to depict the posthuman and its aftereffects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000374018
• Artikelnr.: 61329540

Autorenporträt

Sonia Baelo-Allué is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and German of the University of Zaragoza (Spain) where she currently teaches U.S. Literature and British and American Culture. Mónica Calvo-Pascual is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and German of the University of Zaragoza (Spain) where she teaches Contemporary U.S. Literature and British Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

(Trans/Post)Humanity and Representation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
and the Anthropocene: An Introduction. Sonia Baelo-Allué and Mónica
Calvo-Pascual
Section I. Theoretical Approaches: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
1. Before Humanity: Or, Posthumanism Between Ancestrality and Becoming
Inhuman. Stefan Herbrechter
2. From Utilitarianism to Transhumanism: A Critical Approach. Maite
Escudero-Alías
3. Posthuman Modes of Reading Literature Online. Alexandra Glavanakova
Section II. Transhumanism: The Uneasiness of Human Enhancement
4. Vigilance to Wonder: Human Enhancement in TED Talks. Loredana Filip
5. Patterns of Posthuman Numbness in Shirley & Gibson's "The Belonging
Kind" and Eggers's The Circle. Francisco Collado-Rodríguez
6. Subjects of the 'Modem' World: Writing U. in Tom McCarthy's Satin
Island. Margalida Massanet Andreu
Section III. Transhumanism: Trauma and (Bio)Technology
7. The Paradoxical Anti-Humanism of Tom McCarthy's C: Traumatic Secrets and
the Waning of Affects in the Technological Society. Susana Onega
8. Don DeLillo's Zero K: Transhumanism, Trauma, and the Ethics of Premature
Cryopreservation. Carmen Laguarta-Bueno
9. A Dystopian Vision of Transhuman Enhancement: Speciesist and Political
Issues Intersecting Trauma and Disability in M. Night Shyamalan's Split.
Miriam Fernández-Santiago
Section IV. Posthumanity: Post-Anthropocentric Scenarios
10. The Call of Anthropocene: Resituating the Human through Trans- &
Posthumanism;
Notes of Otherness in Works of Jeff Vandermeer and Cixin Liu. Justus
Poetzsch
11. "Am I a person?" Biotech Animals and Posthumanist Empathy in Jeff
Vandermeer's Borne. Monica Sousa
12. Posthuman Cure: Biological and Cultural Motherhood in Margaret Atwood's
MaddAddam. Esther Muñoz-González
13. Posthuman Transformation in Helen Marshall's The Migration. Sherryl
Vint
Conclusion: Towards a Post-Pandemic, (Post)Human World. Sonia Baelo-Allué
and Mónica Calvo-Pascual