UID:
almahu_9949383631302882
Format:
1 online resource (251 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9780429510366
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0429510365
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9780429201691
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0429201699
,
9780429517228
,
042951722X
,
9780429513794
,
0429513798
Series Statement:
Children's Literature and Culture
Content:
Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction, as recent prominent novels by Socorro Acioli, Julie Berry, Adam Gidwitz, Rachel Hartman, Merrie Haskell, Gene Luen Yang, and others demonstrate. Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction makes the radical claim that these holy medieval figures are actually the new cyborgs in that they dethrone the autonomous subject of humanist modernity. While young people navigate political and personal forces, as well as technologies, that threaten to fragment and thingify them, saints show that agency is still possible outside of the humanist construct of subjectivity. The saints of these neomedievalist novels, through living a life vulnerable to the other, attain a distributed agency that accomplishes miracles through bodies and places and things (relics, icons, pilgrimage sites, and ultimately the hagiographic text and its reader) spread across time. Cyborg Saints analyzes MG and YA fiction through the triple lens of posthumanism, neomedievalism, and postsecularism. Cyborg Saints charts new ground in joining religion and posthumanism to represent the creativity and diversity of young people's fiction
Note:
Neomedievalist saints and the embodiment of hagiographic history -- Cyborg saints, born and made -- "Are we not all things?": relics, posthumanist agency, and intersubjectivity -- The virgin martyr of comics: distributed agency and saintly iconography -- Posthumanist pilgrimage: trans-corporeal journeys -- "Holy dog!": animal studies, tolerance discourse, and posthumanist ethics
Additional Edition:
Print version: Smith, Carissa Turner. Cyborg saints. New York ; London : Routledge, 2020 ISBN 9780367193164
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429201691
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429201691
