Critical Posthumanism: Cloned, Toxic and Cyborg Bodies in Fiction

Critical Posthumanism: Cloned, Toxic and Cyborg Bodies in Fiction
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Publisher : Transnational Press London
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 9781801350044
ISBN-13 : 1801350043
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Download or read book Critical Posthumanism: Cloned, Toxic and Cyborg Bodies in Fiction written by Pelin Kümbet and published by Transnational Press London. This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on three representation of posthuman bodies as cloned bodies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), toxic bodies in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (2007), and cyborg bodies in Justina Robson’s Natural History (2004) from the theoretical perspectives of posthuman definition of what it means to be human, this study discusses the changing concept of the body. In this context, the integral and dynamic connection between a human body and the world is of special significance, which opens up new possibilities to reconfigure the human body that is no longer conceded separate from the nonhuman world but embodied in it. Each of the novels significantly displays the in-betweenness of humans by making them interact with chemical substances, machines, and other nonhuman entities, and shows how clear-cut distinctions between the human and the nonhuman bodies have collapsed.


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