Different Voices

Gender and Posthumanism

Paola Partenza, Özlem Karadağ, Emanuela Ettorre, Paola Partenza, Özlem Karadağ, Emanuela Ettorre

• Editore: V&R Unipress
• Anno: 2022
• ISBN:
  9783847015284
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Littérature
• Categoria: Critique littéraire anglaise

The concept of the "human" has been broadly re-visited and modified, and the term "posthuman" has now become a term of continuous inquiry. Gender (representations) play(s) a critical role in works of literature, culture, and art, and focusing on gender is crucial to uncovering the anthropocentrism or androcentrism that may underlie the work and the times to which it belongs. While maintaining a solid literary emphasis, the ten chapters included in this volume focus on feminist debates about women, technology, and the body, on gender representation and the posthuman, on post-gender figurations, on gender and trans/post/humanism, biotechnology/biopolitics/bioethics, on feminist posthumanism, on animals, the human-machine, and ecological posthumanism. The aim of the volume is to analyse how useful these concepts may be for thinking about the subject, its definition and identity in a changing society.

Indice dei contenuti

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Preface
• Nandita Biswas Mellamphy: Challenging the Humanist Genre of Gender: Posthumanisms and Feminisms
• Jasmine Brooke Ulmer: Narratives for Survival: Possibilities for a Rescue Effort
• Maria Margaroni: Time-Voyagers to the Infinity-Point of the Human: Woolf, Kristeva and the Bisexual Imaginary
• Emanuela Ettorre: Thomas Hardy’s Idiosyncratic Posthumanism and the (Im)‍possibility of Entanglement
• Sanja —otarić: Gendered Transhumanist and Posthumanist Discourse in Marge Piercy’s He, She and It
• Canan Şavkay: Humanism, Masculinity and Global Violence in Doris Lessing’s Ben, In the World
• Özlem Karadağ: What’s in A Number: Caryl Churchill’s Clones and Women in A Number as Harawayian Cyborgs
• Marilena Saracino: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go: the Performative Function of Literature and the Discourse on Human-ess and Identity
• Gökçen Ezber: Disappearance of the Other in Ian McEwans's Machines Like Me
• Paola Partenza: Beyond a “Body Without Organs”: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun
• Notes on Contributors