Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative
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Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative

About this book

Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative brings together fifteen scholars from five different countries to explore the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in contemporary culture and more specifically in key narratives, written in the second decade of the 21st century, by Dave Eggers, William Gibson, John Shirley, Tom McCarthy, Jeff Vandermeer, Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, Cixin Liu and Helen Marshall. Some of these works engage in the premises and perils of transhumanism, while others explore the qualities of the (post)human in a variety of dystopian futures marked by the planetary influence of human action. From a critical posthumanist perspective that questions anthropocentrism, human exceptionalism and the centrality of the 'human' subject in the era of the Anthropocene, the scholars in this collection analyse the aesthetic choices these authors make to depict the posthuman and its aftereffects.

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Yes, you can access Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative by Sonia Baelo-Allué, Mónica Calvo-Pascual, Sonia Baelo-Allué,Mónica Calvo-Pascual in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & 21st Century History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781000374018
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
21st Century History
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of contributors
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. (Trans/Post)Humanity and Representation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Anthropocene: An Introduction
  11. SECTION I: Theoretical Approaches: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
  12. SECTION II: Transhumanism: The Uneasiness of Human Enhancement
  13. SECTION III: Transhumanism: Trauma and (Bio)Technology
  14. SECTION IV: Posthumanity: Post-Anthropocentric Scenarios
  15. Conclusion: Towards a Post-Pandemic, (Post)Human World
  16. Index