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Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture

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The emphasis of the inquiry in Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture.


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INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman: Striving for More Ethical Cohabitation
Section 1: Towards Posthumanist Literature and Posthumanist Reading
Chapter 2: On the Possibility of Posthuman-ist Literature
Chapter 3: Posthumanist Reading: Witnessing Ghosts, Summoning Powers
Chapter 4: Becoming-instrument: Thinking with Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation and Timothy Morton's Hyperobjects
Section 2: Imagining Alien Experiences
Chapter 5: Alien Overtures: Speculating about Nonhuman Experiences with Comic Book Characters
Chapter 6: Playing the Nonhuman: Alien Experiences in Aliens vs. Predator
Section 3: Becoming with Animals
Chapter 7: Dead Dog Talking: Posthumous, Preposthumous, and Preposterous Canine Narration in Charles Sierbert's Angus
Chapter 8: Carnivorous Anatomies: Art and Being Beasts
Chapter 9: Connecting Difference: A Human/Guide Dog Assemblage
Section 4: Technological (Co-)Agencies
Chapter 10: Meeting the Machine Halfway: Towards Non-anthropocentric Semiotics
Chapter 11: Human and Nonhuman Co-Agency, Neuropower and Counterplay in Minecraft
Chapter 12: Cyborganic Wearables: Sociotechnical Misbehavior and the Evolution of Nonhuman Agency
Section 5: Afterword: Unnarratable Matter?
Chapter 13: Unnarratable Matter: Emergence, Narrative, and Material Ecocriticism

About the author

Sanna Karkulehto is Professor of Literature at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has published books, articles and book chapters on the critical study of representation, the politics of discourse, and the politics of difference. Her latest co-edited anthology offers theorization on the ethics and politics of reading when studying representations of gender and violence.
Aino-Kaisa Koistinen (PhD, contemporary culture studies) currently works as postdoctoral researcher in contemporary culture studies at the University of Jyväskylä. Her research interests include feminist theory, posthumanism, crime fiction and speculative fiction, transmediality, and monster studies.
Essi Varis is a graduate student in Comparative Literature and Comics at the University of Jyväskylä. She defended her doctoral compilation dissertation Graphic Human Experiments: Frankensteinian Cognitive Logics of Characters in Vertigo Comics and Beyond in April of 2019.

Summary

The emphasis of the inquiry in Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture.

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