Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781032089836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 260 str.

Carissa Smith

Opis

Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction; Cyborg Saints makes the radical claim that these holy medieval figures are actually the new cyborgs, in that they dethrone the autonomous subject of humanist modernity.

Spis treści

Introduction

Chapter One: Neomedievalist Saints and the Embodiment of Hagiographic History

Chapter Two: Cyborg Saints, Born and Made

Chapter Three: "Are We Not All Things?": Relics, Posthumanist Agency, and Intersubjectivity

Chapter Four: The Virgin Martyr of Comics: Distributed Agency and Saintly Iconography

Chapter Five: Posthumanist Pilgrimage: Trans-corporeal Journeys

Chapter Six: "Holy Dog!": Animal Studies, Tolerance Discourse, and Posthumanist Ethics

Conclusion

References

Index

O autorze

Carissa Turner Smith is Professor of English at Charleston Southern University.