Reconfiguring human, nonhuman and posthuman in literature and culture
/ edited by Sanna Karkulehto, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen and Essi Varis
- 1 online resource (xiii, 286 pages) : illustrations
- Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reconfiguring human, nonhuman and posthuman : striving for more ethical cohabitation / Sanna Karkulehto, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Karoliina Lummaa, Essi Varis Part 1. Toward posthumanist literature and posthumanist reading On the possibility of a posthuman/ist literature(s) / Carole Guesse Posthumanist reading : witnessing ghosts, summoning nonhuman powers / Karoliina Lummaa Becoming-instrument : thinking with Jeff VanderMeer’s annihilation and Timothy Morton’s hyperobjects / Kaisa Kortekallio Part 2. Imagining aliens and monsters Alien overtures : speculating about nonhuman experiences with comic book characters / Essi Varis Playing the nonhuman : alien experiences in aliens vs. predator / Jonne Arjoranta Wild things squeezed in the closet : monsters of children’s literature as nonhuman others / Marleena Mustola, Sanna Karkulehto Part 3. Becoming with animals Dead dog talking : posthumous, preposthumous, and preposterous canine narration in Charles Siebert’s Angus / Mikko Keskinen Carnivorous anatomies : art and being beasts / Brad Bolman Reconfiguring human and nonhuman animals in a guiding assemblage : toward posthumanist conception of disability / Hana Porkertová Part 4. Technological (co-)agencies Meeting the machine halfway : toward non-anthropocentric semiotics / Cléo Collomb, Samuel Goyet Journeys in intensity : human and nonhuman co-agency, neuropower, and counterplay in minecraft / Marleena Huuhka Cyborganic wearables : sociotechnical misbehavior and the evolution of nonhuman agency / Patricia Flanagan, Raune Frankjær Part 5. Afterword Unnarratable matter : emergence, narrative, and material ecocriticism / Juha Raipola
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