Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction
The Posthuman Subject
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Theory, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
| Author: | V. Flanagan | ISBN: | 9781137362063 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK | Publication: | December 16, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | V. Flanagan |
| ISBN: | 9781137362063 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication: | December 16, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction is not a historical study or a survey of narrative plots, but takes a more conceptual approach that engages with the central ideas of posthumanism: the fragmented nature of posthuman identity, the concept of agency as distributed and collective and the role of embodiment in understandings of selfhood.
Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction is not a historical study or a survey of narrative plots, but takes a more conceptual approach that engages with the central ideas of posthumanism: the fragmented nature of posthuman identity, the concept of agency as distributed and collective and the role of embodiment in understandings of selfhood.
