Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 535 g
Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 535 g
Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture
ISBN: 978-0-367-19316-4
Verlag: Routledge
Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction, as recent prominent novels by Socorro Acioli, Julie Berry, Adam Gidwitz, Rachel Hartman, Merrie Haskell, Gene Luen Yang, and others demonstrate. Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction makes the radical claim that these holy medieval figures are actually the new cyborgs in that they dethrone the autonomous subject of humanist modernity. While young people navigate political and personal forces, as well as technologies, that threaten to fragment and thingify them, saints show that agency is still possible outside of the humanist construct of subjectivity. The saints of these neomedievalist novels, through living a life vulnerable to the other, attain a distributed agency that accomplishes miracles through bodies and places and things (relics, icons, pilgrimage sites, and ultimately the hagiographic text and its reader) spread across time. Cyborg Saints analyzes MG and YA fiction through the triple lens of posthumanism, neomedievalism, and postsecularism. Cyborg Saints charts new ground in joining religion and posthumanism to represent the creativity and diversity of young people’s fiction.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
Weitere Infos & Material
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
