Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction : Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World /

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"For centuries, humanism has provided a paradigm for what it means to be human: a rational, unique, unified, universal, autonomous being. Recently, however, a new philosophical approach, posthumanism, has questioned these assumptions, asserting that being human is not a fixed state but one alwa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: White, Donna R., 1955- (Editor ), Tarr, C. Anita, 1953- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Humanism.
Holism.
Humanism in literature.
Technology in literature.
Young adult literature.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Technologie dans la litterature.
Roman pour jeunes adultes > Themes, motifs.
Humanisme dans la litterature.
Litterature pour jeunes adultes > Histoire et critique.
Young adult fiction > Themes, motives.
Young adult literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Networked subjectivities
  • Open to me. Maybe I can help : networked consciousness and ethical subjectivity in Octavia E. Butler's Mind of My Mind / Mathieu Donner
  • Information disembodiment takeover : anxieties of technological determinism in contemporary coming-of-age narratives / Shannon Hervey
  • The monstrous other: posthuman bodies
  • Once upon a cyborg: Cinder as posthuman fairytale / Angela S. Insenga
  • The adolescent posthuman : re-imagining body image and identity in Marissa Meyer's Cinder and Julianna Baggott's Pure / Ferne Merrylees
  • Those maps would have to change : remapping the borderlines of the posthuman body in Leigh Bardugo's Grisha trilogy / Maryna Matlock
  • Superpowers don't always make you a superhero : posthuman possibilities in Michael Grant's Gone series / Patricia Kennon
  • Posthumanism in the House of the Scorpion and the Lord of Opium / Donna R. White
  • Posthumanism in climate fiction
  • Coming of age and the other : critical posthumanism in Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker and the Drowned Cities / Lars Schmeink
  • Posthuman potential and ecological limit in future worlds / Phoebe Chen
  • Accepting/rejecting posthumanist possibilities
  • Negotiating the human in Ridley Scott's Prometheus / Torsten Caeners
  • Posthumanist magic : beyond the boundaries of humanist ethics in Lev Grossman's The Magicians / Tony M. Vinci
  • China Miville's young adult novels : posthumanist assemblages / Anita Tarr.

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