Karkulehto S.A., Koistinen, K., & Varis, E. (Eds.). (2019). Reconfiguring human, nonhuman and posthuman in literature and culture. Routledge.

Abstract

The current climate crisis and the rapid and drastic changes our planet is undergoing at the moment demand a re-thinking of the way in which humanity and nonhumanity are understood. Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture aims to investigate human, nonhuman and posthuman representations in contemporary culture and literature, and analyse the way in which these concepts are reconfigured within the context of the Anthropocene. The volume is part of the Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture series edited by Karen Raber, a series that investigates how the non-human is represented in literary and cultural studies. Building on seminal works of authors such as Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, Karen Barad, N. Katherine Hayles, but also on newer scholarship such as Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann’s “material ecocriticism” or Marco Caracciolo’s phenomenology of narrative, this volume seeks to understand the cultural changes engendered by the Anthropocene.