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Cyborg saints : religion and Posthumanism in middle grade and young adult fiction
- Title
- Cyborg saints : religion and Posthumanism in middle grade and young adult fiction / Carissa Turner Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Carissa Turner
- Publication
- New York ; London : Routledge, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- 251 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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." -- Publisher's description
- Series Statement
- Children's literature and culture
- Uniform Title
- Children's literature and culture.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Young adult fiction.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-246) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-1242
- ISBN
- 9780367193164
- 0367193167
- OCLC
- 1123193657
- Author
- Smith, Carissa Turner, author.
- Title
- Cyborg saints : religion and Posthumanism in middle grade and young adult fiction / Carissa Turner Smith.
- Publisher
- New York ; London : Routledge, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Children's literature and cultureChildren's literature and culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-246) and index.
- Biography
- Carissa Turner Smith is Professor of English at Charleston Southern University.
- Other Form:
- Ebook version : 9780429513794
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-1242