Mapping the Posthuman
$116.04
- Paperback
332 pages
- Release Date
26 May 2025
Summary
Charting the Course: Navigating the Posthuman Landscape
This book delineates the intersection of science and art, charting the major routes shaping our understanding of the posthuman. Structured around origin myths that influence the idea of the human in our technological age, this volume highlights narratives of alter-modernity. It echoes Ursula K. Le Guin’s call for stories that expose the violence and exploitation fueled by human exceptionalism, anthropocentrism, and cultural sup…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781032345239 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1032345233 |
| Series: | Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture |
| Author: | Grant Hamilton, Carolyn Lau |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 332 |
| Release Date: | 26 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 580g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Grant Hamilton
Grant Hamilton is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He teaches and writes in the areas of literary theory, twentieth-century world literatures, African literature, and computational literary studies. He is the author of The London Object (2021), The World of Failing Machines (2016), and On Representation (2011). He is the co-editor of A Companion to Mia Couto (2016), and editor of Reading Marechera (2013).
Carolyn Lau teaches and researches on global speculative fictions, contemporary literature, and narrative futures in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Posthuman Subjectivity in the Novels of J.G. Ballard (2023).
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