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Nonhuman agencies in the twenty-first-century anglophone novel

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Unknown Liebermann, Yvonne Springer International Publishing (Cham, Switzerland , 2021) (eng) English 9783030794422 Unknown 1st ed. TECHNOLOGY IN LITERATURE; Unknown This book offers an overview on the growing field of nonhuman studies in relation to Anglophone novels. It illuminates the variety of nonhuman actors that take centre stage in the twenty-first-century novel and the formal changes that the Anthropocene, the digital turn, the animal rights movement, and research into plant consciousness have brought to the novel as a form. The book is divided into four sections, each focusing on a different aspect of twenty-first-century literature that engages with the nonhuman. The collection investigates how the environmental changes and the increasing use of AI technologies have fostered the flourishing of genres like the New Weird, Climate Fiction, and speculative fiction, how it makes us embrace new perceptions of life in relation to genetic engineering, and how it forces us to engage with newly emerging political contexts.
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1. Introduction: Narrating the Nonhuman
Section I: Nonhuman Poetics: Agency of Literary Forms
2. Forms of Agency, Agency of Forms: Reading and Teaching More-than-Human Fictions
3. Nonhuman Agencies in and of Literature
4. Deontologising the Nonhuman: Arthur Gordon Pym, Contemporary Literature, and the Limits of the Human.-Section II: Negotiating the Human in the Light of the Nonhuman
5. Anthropogenesis: Ian McEwans Fictions of the Human
6. Arctic Snowmobilities: Encounters with Sled Dogs in Gary Paulsens Winterdance
7. Reframing the Nonhuman: Grievability and the Value of Life in Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go
8. Hopeless Necromantics: Decomposition and Transcorporeal Love in Jim Craces Being Dead
Section III: Imagining Biocentric Communities
9. The Gender Politics of Trees
10. "Mycorrhizal Multiplicities" : Mapping Collective Agency in Powerss The Overstory
11. The Climate Crisis and Affective Nonhuman Encounters: Ali Smiths Autumn (2016) and Jon McGregors Reservoir 13 (2017)
12. Postcolonial Fictions of the Anthropocene: Tracing Nonhuman Agency in Shubhangi Swarups Latitudes of Longing
Section IV: Negotiating Reality: Approaching the Nonhumans Inescapable Alterity
13. Cthulhu Calling: Weird Intimacy and Estrangement in the Anthropocene
14. "Just a Surface" : Anamorphic Perspective and Nonhuman Narration in Jeff VanderMeers The Strange Bird
15. "All Life Matters, or None does" Connecting Human and Nonhuman Worlds in Ambelin Kwaymullinas The Tribe Series

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