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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 Paperback – 30 iun 2021
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: 9781032089836
ISBN-10: 1032089830
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.39 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.