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Children's Literature and the Posthuman - Animal, Environment, Cyborg (Paperback)
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Children's Literature and the Posthuman - Animal, Environment, Cyborg (Paperback)
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
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An investigation of identity formation in children's literature,
this book brings together children's literature and recent critical
concerns with posthuman identity to argue that children's fiction
offers sophisticated interventions into debates about what it means
to be human, and in particular about humanity's relationship to
animals and the natural world. In complicating questions of human
identity, ecology, gender, and technology, Jaques engages with a
multifaceted posthumanism to understand how philosophy can emerge
from children's fantasy, disclosing how such fantasy can build upon
earlier traditions to represent complex issues of humanness to
younger audiences. Interrogating the place of the human through the
non-human (whether animal or mechanical) leads this book to have
interpretations that radically depart from the critical tradition,
which, in its concerns with the socialization and representation of
the child, has ignored larger epistemologies of humanness. The book
considers canonical texts of children's literature alongside recent
bestsellers and films, locating texts such as Gulliver's Travels
(1726), Pinocchio (1883) and the Alice books (1865, 1871) as
important works in the evolution of posthuman ideas. This study
provides radical new readings of children's literature and
demonstrates that the genre offers sophisticated interventions into
the nature, boundaries and dominion of humanity.
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