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Re-thinking Posthumanism across the Global South

An Introduction

Bapin Mallick, Nikhilesh Dhar (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
228 Seiten
2025 | New edition
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-80374-664-7 (ISBN)

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This edited volume makes an endeavour to revisit the literary representation of the «human» and the manner in which the authority of the human is challenged from a variety of perspectives in order to explore different critical issues that exist in our contemporary world.
Scholarly attention to the concept of the posthuman has increased recently in response to pressing problems about what it means to be human and what distinguishes the human from the nonhuman. The ongoing ecological catastrophes, recent technological breakthroughs, and the desire to address in new ways issues involving race, gender, and environment has further intensified this engagement. In the light of this, we hope that this book will serve as a forum for discussing how the concept of the posthuman may have altered our interactions with the natural world, and with one another, for delving into how we may have always been entwined with the nonhuman others, and finally, for speculating, how the posthuman may have repercussions beyond the academy.

Nikhilesh Dhar is Assistant Professor of English at Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, Bankura, West Bengal, and a PhD Research Supervisor at the Department of English, Bankura University. He is the editorial board member of Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. A prolific researcher and writer, he has several articles published in various journals and anthologies to his credit. A member of various academic associations, he has presented papers at various national and international seminars. His research interests include American literature, Indian Writings in English, Dalit Literature, Partition Literature, Diaspora Studies, Ecocriticism, Postcolonialism and Posthumanism. His edited volumes are Revisiting Ecocriticism: Traditional, Post-colonial and Spiritual Perspectives, Remapping the Canon: A Journey Across Indian Poetry in English, Posthumanism and Literary Insights: A Critical Introduction, Revisiting Anthropocentrism: Literary and Cultural Representations of Ecological Issues and Remapping Indian Diaspora: Literary and Socio Cultural Representations. Bapin Mallick is Assistant Professor of English at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar College (Affiliated to University of Kalyani), Nadia, West Bengal. He is the managing editor of Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. His areas of interest are Poststructuralism, Ecocriticism and Posthumanism. He has several research papers and articles published in various literary journals and anthologies to his credit.

Contents: Swagata Singha Ray: Investigating the Post-Anthropocene Futures: Biocapitalism and Posthuman Ontologies in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne – Niladri Mahapatra: Mandrake, the First Performer of Posthuman Plants: Exploring the Plant-Human Liminality as Posthuman Condition – Tiyasa Dey: Voices of the Non-humans: A Hauntological Inspection of Posthuman Agencies in Select Hindi Films of the Twenty-First Century – Reeswav Chatterjee: Spectres of the Future: The Marginal Children of Posthumanity in Select Stories by Saikat Mukhopadhyay – Saikat Chakraborty: Materiality and Otherness: Interrogating the Post-human in Satyajit Ray and Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay – Shalini Chakraborty: Love in the Time of Posthumanity: Analyzing the Equation between the Bodied and Disembodied Consciousness in Spike Jonze’s Her – Sourav Saha: Transcending the Human/ Post-Human Boundary: Exploring the Ambivalence Concerning the Post-Human in Netflix’s Black Mirror – Jyoti Biswas: Preservation of Orality through Digital Archiving: A Critical Study of Oloi Song in Post-humanist Discourse – Debojyoti Dan: Eliot’s Hollow Men and Radcliffe’s AIDA: Transcending the Binary Programmed Algorithm of Digital and Human – Aishwarya Das Gupta: Death, Decay, and Regeneration: A Post-humanist Reading of “Good Hunting” from the Netflix Series Love, Death & Robots (Volume 1) – Swapna Roy: More than (Biogenetic) Food: Re-questioning the Inevitability of GMOs in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Calorie Man and The Windup Girl – Aritra Basu: Heterogeneous Platter, Hybrid Presentations: Analyzing the Elements of Posthumanism in Select Works of Sukumar Ray – Joydeep Chakraborty: Creative Posthumanism in the 21st-Century American Poetry: An Examination of Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric and This Connection of Everyone with Lungs – Sujato Ghosh: Confronting Human-Centric Stability, Revisiting the Ineluctable Torture Chamber and Comprehending the Post-Human Uncertainty of Coordinates in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians.

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Zusatzinfo 11 Illustrations
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 363 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Lexikon / Chroniken
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
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ISBN-10 1-80374-664-5 / 1803746645
ISBN-13 978-1-80374-664-7 / 9781803746647
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