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The posthuman imagination : literature at the edge of the human /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kundu, Tanmoy (Editor), Sarkar, Saikat (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2021]
Subjects:
Humanism.
Humanism in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • [I]. Posthuman ecology, ontology, definition of the human. Posthuman ecology, ontology, definition of the human European literary modernisms and the ontology of objects / Arka Chattopadhyay
  • Posthumanist streaks and textures : a study of Ruskin Bond's vagrants in the valley / Soumyadeep Chakraborty
  • Posthuman ecology and capitalist decay in Wall-E and Avatar / Oly Roy
  • Stratified identity : a study of the posthumanist approach to the mind body equation in Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest / Priyanka Pathak
  • Mental health and cyberspace : exploring the psycho-sociological needs for the new millennium / Swapna Roy
  • [II]. Cyborg, machine, transhumanism. Advent of interactive digital text : understanding literature in the posthuman era / Jai Singh
  • Man, machine and the individual will in Alex Proyas' I, Robot / Arpita Roy
  • "We are all cyborgs now" : disrupting gender identity through the cyborg in Marge Piercy's He, She and It / Indrajit Mukherjee
  • The crisis of the human existence in the 20th and the 21st centuries : a representation of the ontological and the practical posthumanism in Karel Capek's drama R.U.R. (Rossum 's Universal Robots) / Sahabuddin Ahamed
  • [III]. Dystopia/Utopia. The posthuman 'self' in dystopian tv series' : re-reading Leila and the Handmaid's Tale / Ankana Das
  • Nostalgic futurism and the politics of the posthuman : Varon Thomas Mathew's the black dwarves of the good little bay / Ankit Prasad
  • Existence beyond the mundane self : an ontological reading of multiexistence, parallel universe, and the notion of posthumanist multiverse in the work of H.G. Wells / Sourav Nag
  • [IV]. Posthuman body, disease. Posthuman bodies : investigating the grotesque and the desirable / Chandrima Pramanick, Indranil Banerjee
  • "Lord have mercy upon us" : the advent of the posthuman in English plague narratives of the 18th century / M.D. Mahasweta
  • The posthuman imagination : literature at the edge of the human dialogue on posthuman life, death and Covid-19 / Francesca Ferrando, Asijit Datta.