Overview
- Contributes to the study of animal studies, new materialism, biopolitics, and ecocriticism
- Provides a comprehensive overview of nonhuman agents beyond animals
- Showcases varied approaches to nonhuman agents unique to the novel form
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Nonhuman Poetics: Agency of Literary Forms
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Negotiating the Human in the Light of the Nonhuman
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Imagining Biocentric Communities
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Negotiating Reality: Approaching the Nonhuman’s Inescapable Alterity
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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 Afrofuturism’s 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 Okorafor’s Africanfuturist fiction.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nonhuman Agencies in the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel
Editors: Yvonne Liebermann, Judith Rahn, Bettina Burger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79442-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79441-5Published: 27 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79444-6Published: 28 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79442-2Published: 25 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 320
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Literary Theory, Literature and Technology/Media, Fiction, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, History, general