Anita Tarr & Donna R. White 
Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction [EPUB ebook] 
Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World

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Contributions by Torsten Caeners, Phoebe Chen, Mathieu Donner, Shannon Hervey, Angela S. Insenga, Patricia Kennon, Maryna Matlock, Ferne Merrylees, Lars Schmeink, Anita Tarr, Tony M. Vinci, and Donna R. White
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 always dynamic and evolving. Restrictive boundaries are no longer in play, and we do not define who we are by delineating what we are not (animal, machine, monster). There is no one aspect that makes a being human—self-awareness, emotion, artistic expression, or problem-solving—since human characteristics reside in other species along with shared DNA. Instead, posthumanism looks at the ways our bodies, intelligence, and behavior connect and interact with the environment, technology, and other species.
In
Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction: Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World, editors Anita Tarr and Donna R. White collect twelve essays that explore this new discipline’s relevance in young adult literature. Adolescents often tangle with many issues raised by posthumanist theory, such as body issues. The in-betweenness of adolescence makes stories for young adults ripe for posthumanist study. Contributors to the volume explore ideas of posthumanism, including democratization of power, body enhancements, hybridity, multiplicity/plurality, and the environment, by analyzing recent works for young adults, including award-winners like Paolo Bacigalupi’s
Ship Breaker and Nancy Farmer’s
The House of the Scorpion, as well as the works of Octavia Butler and China Miéville.

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Donna R. White is professor of English at Arkansas Tech University. She is coeditor of Kenneth Grahame’s ’The Wind in the Willows’: A Children’s Classic at 100, winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s Edited Book Award in 2012.

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Språk Engelska ● Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 304 ● ISBN 9781496816702 ● Filstorlek 1.9 MB ● Redaktör Anita Tarr & Donna R. White ● Utgivare University Press of Mississippi ● Stad Jackson ● Land US ● Publicerad 2018 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 6213584 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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