Información General

• Autores: Sonia Baelo Allué (coord.), Mónica Calvo Pascual (coord.)
• Editores: Routledge USA
• Año de publicación: 2021
• Colecciones: Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
• País: Estados Unidos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9780367655136
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  • Transhumanism and posthumanism in twenty-first century narrative: Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture. Sonia Baelo-Allué and Mónica Calvo-Pascual (eds.)

    Rocío Carrasco Carrasco (res.)

    Nexus, ISSN-e 1697-4646, Nº. 2, 2022, págs. 98-100

Resumen

• 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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Listado de artículos

• • (Trans/Post) Humanity and Representation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Anthropocene:: An Introduction.

    Sonia Baelo Allué, Mónica Calvo Pascual

    págs. 1-19

    

  • SECTION I. Theoretical Approaches: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

    • Before Humanit, Or, Posthumanism Between Ancestrality and Becoming Inhuman.

      Stefan Herbrechter

      págs. 23-35

      

    • From Utilitarianism to Transhumanism:: A Critical Approach.

      María Teresa Escudero Alías

      págs. 36-50

      

    • Posthuman Modes of Reading Literature Online.

      Alexandra Glavanakova

      págs. 51-67

      

  • SECTION II. Transhumanism: The Uneasiness of Human Enhancement

    • Vigilance to Wonder:: Human Enhancement in TED Talks.

      Loredana Filip

      págs. 71-84

      

    • Patterns of Posthuman Numbness in Shirley & Gibson’s "The Belonging Kind" and Eggers’s The Circle.

      Francisco Collado Rodríguez

      págs. 85-99

      

    • Subjects of the ‘Modem’ World:: Writing U. in Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island.

      Margalida Massanet Andreu

      págs. 100-115

      

  • SECTION III. Transhumanism: Trauma and (Bio) Technology

    • The Paradoxical Anti-Humanism of Tom McCarthy’s C:: Traumatic Secrets and the Waning of Affects in the Technological Society.

      Susana Onega Jaén

      págs. 119-134

      

    • Don DeLillo’s Zero K (2016):: Transhumanism, Trauma, and the Ethics of Premature Cryopreservation.

      Carmen Laguarta Bueno

      págs. 135-150

      

    • A Dystopian Vision of Transhuman Enhancement:: Speciesist and Political Issues Intersecting Trauma and Disability in M. Night Shyamalan’s Split.

      Miriam Fernández Santiago

      págs. 151-169

      

  • SECTION IV. Posthumanity: Post-Anthropocentric Scenarios

    • The Call of Anthropocene:: Resituating the Human through Trans- & Posthumanism; Notes of Otherness in Works of Jeff Vandermeer and Cixin Liu.

      Justus Poetzsch

      págs. 173-189

      

    • "Am I a person?": Biotech Animals and Posthumanist Empathy in Jeff Vandermeer’s Borne.

      Mónica Sousa

      págs. 190-205

      

    • Posthuman Cure:: Biological and Cultural Motherhood in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam.

      Esther Muñoz González

      págs. 206-221

      

    • Posthuman Transformation in Helen Marshall’s The Migration.

      Sherryl Vint

      págs. 222-235

      

  • Conclusión

    • Conclusion:: Towards a Post-Pandemic, (Post)Human World.

      Sonia Baelo Allué, Mónica Calvo Pascual

      págs. 236-239