Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care

Interweaving posthuman theory, care philosophy and contemporary fiction, Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care offers generative visions of care that make room for the incredible range of affects, energies, behaviours, attachments and dependencies that produce and sustain life in more-than-human worlds.

List of contents

• From Human to Posthuman Care


• Care Robots and Affective Legitimacy


• Feral Touch: Care and Contact in Posthuman Worlds


• Care and Disposable Bodies


• Decolonizing Posthuman Care


• Care beyond Life: Imagining Posthumous Relations

About the author

Amelia DeFalco is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Uncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative (2010), Imagining Care: Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature (2016), and co-editor of Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro (2018).

Summary

Interweaving posthuman theory, care philosophy and contemporary fiction, Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care offers generative visions of care that make room for the incredible range of affects, energies, behaviours, attachments and dependencies that produce and sustain life in more-than-human worlds.

Additional text

Defalco manages a straightforward, clear expression, often stepping back to summarize or restate key ideas in direct prose. The argument is well informed, drawing capacious research from varied sources into a coherent and compelling whole.

Product details

• Authors: Amelia Defalco, Amelia (Professor of Contemporary Literat Defalco, Prof Amelia (Associate Professor Defalco, DeFalco Amelia
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.2023
• EAN: 9780192886125
• ISBN: 978-0-19-288612-5
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Political, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000