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Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction: Children's Literature and Culture

Autor Carissa Smith
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 sep 2019
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367193164
ISBN-10: 0367193167
Pagini: 260
Ilustrații: 6 Halftones, black and white
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Children's Literature and Culture

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

Carissa Turner Smith is Professor of English at Charleston Southern University.

Descriere

Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction; Cyborg Saints makes the radical claim that these holy medieval figures are actually the new cyborgs, in that they dethrone the autonomous subject of humanist modernity.