Nonhuman agencies in the twenty-first-century Anglophone novel / Yvonne Liebermann, Judith Rahn, Bettina Burger, editors.
Liebermann, Yvonne, editor.; Rahn, Judith, editor.; Burger, Bettina, editor.
2021
PR890.T37 N66 2021
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Title Nonhuman agencies in the twenty-first-century Anglophone novel / Yvonne Liebermann, Judith Rahn, Bettina Burger, editors.
ISBN 9783030794422 (electronic bk.)
3030794423 (electronic bk.)
9783030794415
3030794415
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79442-2
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-79442-2 doi
Call Number PR890.T37 N66 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 823.9209356
Summary 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. Yvonne Liebermann is Lecturer and Research Assistant at Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany. She is currently completing a book Latency and Memory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature. She has written articles in the field of contemporary literature, which have been published in peer-reviewed journals including European Journal of English Studies and Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, together with Birgit Neumann. Judith Rahn is Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany. She is currently finishing her book Exploring Posthuman Life in Contemporary Fiction and is co-editor of the special issue Afrofuturisms Transcultural Trajectories (2020, with Eva U. Pirker). She is author of (Re- )Negotiating Black Posthumanism The Precarity of Race in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon (2019). Bettina Burger is Lecturer in Postcolonial and Anglophone Literatures at the University of Duesseldorf, Germany. She has previously organised a successful conference on the topic of Nonhuman Agency in Anglophone Literatures. Her publications include contributions to the Literary Encyclopedia and an article on challenges to Western science in Nnedi Okorafors Africanfuturist fiction.
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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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