Towards a Posthuman Imagination in Literature and Media; Monsters, Mutants, Aliens, Artificial Beings

ISBN-13: 9781788745826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 246 str.

Simona Micali

Opis

This book explores the rich variety of non-human figures in contemporary science fiction literature and film and considers what these figures tell us about our notions of humankind. The posthuman ultimately comes to serve as the symbol of a revolutionary vision of humanity that embraces a new, more humble way of being and living.

Recenzje

«Towards a Posthuman Imagination provides the reader with a solid reflection on the role and evolution of non-human figures in sf, and it constitutes an excellent source for the scholar, a fine manual for the sf devotee, and an ideal textbook for a potential course on science fiction in general and on posthumanism in particular.» (Alberto Iozzia, Science Fiction Studies, 47:2 (July 2020))

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Meeting the Other, Becoming the Other - The Subhuman - The Alien - The Simulacrum - The Posthuman.

O autorze

Simona Micali is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Siena. She has published three books (L'innamoramento, 2001; Miti e riti del moderno, 2002; Ascesa e declino dell'Uomo di lusso. Il romanzo dell'intellettuale nella Nuova Italia e i suoi modelli europei, 2008) and several essays on modern and contemporary fiction. In 2016 she organized the international conference on «Fictionalising the Posthuman» (Siena) and edited a special issue of the academic journal Contemporanea on «Raccontare il postumano».