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Title:
Posthumanism in young adult fiction : finding humanity in a posthuman world / edited by Anita Tarr and Donna R. White.
Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xxiv, 290 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Young adult fiction--History and criticism.
Humanism in literature.
Young adult fiction--Themes, motives.
Humanism.
Holism.
Other Authors:
Tarr, C. Anita, 1953- editor.
White, Donna R., 1955- editor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"Open to me. maybe I can help" : networked consciousness and ethical subjectivity in Octavia E. Butler's Mind of My Mind / Mathieu Donner -- Information disembodiment takeover : anxieties of technological determinism in contemporary coming-of-age narratives / Shannon Hervey -- Once upon a cyborg : Cinder as posthuman fairytale / Angela S. Insenga -- The adolescent posthuman : reimagining body image and identity in Marissa Meyer's Cinder and Julianna Baggott's Pure / Ferne Merrylees -- "Those maps would have to change" : remapping the borderlines of the posthuman body in Leigh Bardugo's Grisha Trilogy / Maryna Matlock -- "Superpowers don't always make you a superhero" : posthuman possibilities in Michael Grant's Gone series / Patricia Kennon -- Posthumanism in The House of the Scorpion and The Lord of Opium / Donna R. White -- Coming of age and the other : critical posthumanism in Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities / Lars Schmeink -- Posthuman potential and ecological limit in future worlds / Phoebe Chen -- Negotiating the human in Ridley Scott's Prometheus / Torsten Caeners -- Posthumanist magic : beyond the boundaries of humanist ethics in Lev Grossman's The Magicians / Tony M. Vinci -- China Mieville's young adult novels : posthumanist assemblages / Anita Tarr.
Series:
Children's Literature Association series
ISBN:
9781496816696
1496816692
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1011176627
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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