Contributions by Torsten Caeners, Phoebe Chen, Mathieu Donner,
Shannon Hervey, Angela S. Insenga, Patricia Kennon, Maryna Matlock,
Ferne Merrylees, Lars Schmeink, Anita Tarr, Tony M. Vinci, and
Donna R. White For centuries, humanism has provided a paradigm for
what it means to be human: a rational, unique, unified, universal,
autonomous being. Recently, however, a new philosophical approach,
posthumanism, has questioned these assumptions, asserting that
being human is not a fixed state but one always dynamic and
evolving. Restrictive boundaries are no longer in play, and we do
not define who we are by delineating what we are not (animal,
machine, monster). There is no one aspect that makes a being human
- self-awareness, emotion, artistic expression, or problem-solving
- since human characteristics reside in other species along with
shared DNA. Instead, posthumanism looks at the ways our bodies,
intelligence, and behavior connect and interact with the
environment, technology, and other species. In Posthumanism in
Young Adult Fiction: Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World, editors
Anita Tarr and Donna R. White collect twelve essays that explore
this new discipline's relevance in young adult literature.
Adolescents often tangle with many issues raised by posthumanist
theory, such as body issues. The in-betweenness of adolescence
makes stories for young adults ripe for posthumanist study.
Contributors to the volume explore ideas of posthumanism, including
democratization of power, body enhancements, hybridity,
multiplicity/plurality, and the environment, by analyzing recent
works for young adults, including award-winners like Paolo
Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker and Nancy Farmer's The House of the
Scorpion, as well as the works of Octavia Butler and China
Mieville.
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