Posthuman pathogenesis : contagion in literature, arts, and media /
This multivocal assemblage of literary and cultural responses to contagions provides insights into the companionship of posthumanities, environmental humanities and medical humanities to shed light on how we deal with complex issues like communicable diseases in contemporary times. Examining imagina...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2023].
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| Series: | Routledge studies in literature and health humanities.
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| Summary: | This multivocal assemblage of literary and cultural responses to contagions provides insights into the companionship of posthumanities, environmental humanities and medical humanities to shed light on how we deal with complex issues like communicable diseases in contemporary times. Examining imaginary and real contagions, ranging from Jeep and SHEVA to plague, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, Posthuman Pathogenesis discusses the inextricable links between nature and culture, matter and meaning-making practices, and the human and the nonhuman. Dissecting pathogenic nonhuman bodies in their interactions with their human counterparts and the environment, the authors of this volume raise their diverse voices with two primary aims, to analyze how contagions trigger a drive to survival and chaotic, liberating and captivating impulses and to focus on the viral interpolations in sociopolitical and environmental systems as a meeting point of science, technology and fiction, blending social reality and myth. Following the premises of the post-qualitative turn and presenting a differentiated experience of contagion, this rhizomatic' compilation thus offers a non-hierarchized array of essays, composed of a multiplicity of genders, geographies and generations. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781032264264 1032264268 9781032264288 1032264284 |