Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture
Series: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 17 July 2019
- ISBN 9780367197476
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 557 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 Tables, black & white 0
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Short description:
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.
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The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture tackles this severe matter within the framework of literary and cultural studies. The emphasis of the inquiry is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture – although, as long as the domain of nonhumanity is carved in the negative space of humanity, addressing these issues will inevitably clamor for the reconfiguration of the human as well.
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/reconfiguring-human-nonhuman-posthuman-literature-culture-sanna-karkulehto-aino-kaisa-koistinen-essi-varis/e/10.4324/9780429243042, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
"In Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman, and Posthuman in Literature and Culture, editors Sanna Karkulehto, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, and Essi Varis have done more than assemble a collection of essays on posthumanisms (broadly conceived); they have amassed a scholarly mesh of sorts, a strange ecosystem of questions, concepts, methodologies, and subject positions that play productively with the evolving formations of critical posthumanisms...the book is dazzling in its playful intelligence and indefatigable curiosity. Because of this spirit of interrogative play, I consider it to be part of the now-vital network of collected essays on critical posthumanisms...the prime value of the collection, at least for this reviewer, is its effort to bring into conversation a wide array of theories, disciplines, primary texts (comics, novels, video games, etc.), materialities, and aesthetic sensitivities that both enhance and question the emerging fields of critical posthumanisms." Tony M. Vinci, Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
"This book does not merely model ways to look at texts through a nonhuman or posthuman lens but illuminates the benefits and even necessity of employing a nonhuman gaze." --Colleen Karn, Methodist College
"Is it possible to say something meaningful about "nonhuman" literature? Would you really like to know what it is like to be a bat? How to make sense of the current drive in the "new" humanities towards problematizing "humanness" and "humanity"? What kind of narratives, readings, visualisations, experiences could or should be employed in human-nonhuman-posthuman relations? Sometimes it is by asking the right questions that knowledge, politics and ethics can be reconfigured. The contributions in this volume are a case in point." --Stefan Herbrechter, Coventry University
MoreTable of Contents:
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
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