《Children's Literature and the Posthuman》是一本圖書，作者是Jaques, Zoe。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Children's Literature and the Posthuman
- 作者：Jaques, Zoe
- 出版時間：2018年2月
- 頁數：284 頁
- 裝幀：平裝
- ISBN：9780415818438
內容簡介
An investigation of identity formation in children’s literature, this book brings together children’s literature and recent critical concerns with a posthumanism 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 questi...(展開全部) An investigation of identity formation in children’s literature, this book brings together children’s literature and recent critical concerns with a posthumanism 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 fiction can build upon earlier traditions to represent complex issues of humanness to younger audiences. Interrogating the place of the human through the nonhuman (whether animal or mechanical) leads this book to have interpretations that 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 children’s literature alongside recent bestsellers and films, locating texts such as Gulliver’s Travels (1726), The Adventures of 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. Zoe Jaques is Lecturer in Children’s Literature at Cambridge University, UK, and a Fellow of Homerton College. She is co-author of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventu
