Posthuman Condition in 21st Century Literature and Culture

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av María Ferrández-Sanmiguel, Esther Muñoz-González, Carmen Laguarta-Bueno, Maria Ferrandez-Sanmiguel, Esther Munoz-Gonzalez

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More than a decade after its first definitions, critical posthumanism has become consolidated as a key discourse for the understanding of our contemporary state of being within what has been called the paradigm of posthumanity, but also, crucially, as an ideology and a praxis that guides our engagements with the world around us.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-06-19
Mått148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt496 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor282
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031837005

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María Ferrández-Sanmiguel, Associate Professor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, specializes in North American Literature, focusing on contemporary US fiction and ethics. Her research explores the posthuman and nonhuman elements in speculative fiction. Recent works include articles in Critique and Extrapolation, and the monograph Trauma, Gender and Ethics in the Works of E.L. Doctorow (2020).Esther Muñoz-González, Associate Professor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, specializes in contemporary US fiction with a posthumanist focus. Her research explores dystopian representations of the future and cli-fiction in Gothic texts. She has published in impactful journals and edited volumes, including a recent monograph titled Posthumanity in the Anthropocene: Margaret Atwood Dystopias (2023).Carmen Laguarta-Bueno, a University of Zaragoza faculty member, specializes in contemporary US fiction, exploring trauma, transhumanism, critical posthumanism, and bioethics. Author of Representing (Post)Human Enhancement Technologies in Twenty-First Century US Fiction (2022), her recent essays delve into virtual immortality, transhumanism, metafiction, and the ethical aspects of enhancing human happiness through biotechnology.

Chapter 1. Recent Cross disciplinary Approaches to the Posthuman An Introduction.- Chapter 2. “We are the Borg Resistance is futile”: Reflections, Numbness, and Transhumanism in the Star Trek Universe.- Chapter 3. Posthuman Cognitive Ecologies and AI Moral Agency in Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice.- Chapter 4. “A Better Future Is in Your Hands”: Transhumanism and Feminism in The Power (TV Series 2023)”.- Chapter 5. Indenture Rights for All: Challenging the Human Status Quo in Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous.- Chapter 6. “World without end”: A Reading of Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army as an Eco-Feminist Postapocalyptic Dystopia.- Chapter 7. Outfacing the ‘In’ Face: The Posthuman Wound and the Defacing of Relationality in Joma West’s Face.- Chapter 8. Beyond the Human/NonHuman Binary: Fluid Borders in A.S. Byatt’s Onto-Tales.- Chapter 9. Reassembling Skins and Bones: Indigeneity and Posthumanism in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms.- Chapter 10. Beyond the Anthropocentric Gaze: The Nonhuman Animal as Object/Subject of Vision in Cinema.- Chapter 11. Humanism as Prosthesis: Science Fiction as Ceremon.- Chapter 12. Phenomenalogy and the Neo-Apollonian: New Critical Proposal and Aesthetic Trends for the Posthuman.- Chapter 13. Posthumanism and Grace: Pre-Texts for an Improbable Relation.