Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative

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Table of Contents
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List of contributors
Acknowledgments
(Trans/Post)Humanity and Representation in the Fourth
Industrial Revolution and the Anthropocene: An Introduction
1. Before Humanity, Or, Posthumanism Between Ancestrality and
Becoming Inhuman
2. From Utilitarianism to Transhumanism: A Critical Approach
3. Posthuman Modes of Reading Literature Online
4. Vigilance to Wonder: Human Enhancement in TED Talks
5. Patterns of Posthuman Numbness in Shirley & Gibson’s “The
Belonging Kind” and Eggers’s The Circle
6. Subjects of the ‘Modem’ World: Writing U. in Tom McCarthy’s
Satin Island
7. The Paradoxical Anti-Humanism of Tom McCarthy’s C: Traumatic Secrets and the Waning of Affects in the Technological Society
8. Don DeLillo’s Zero K (2016): Transhumanism, Trauma, and the
Ethics of Premature Cryopreservation
9. A Dystopian Vision of Transhuman Enhancement: Speciesist and Political Issues Intersecting Trauma and Disability in M. Night Shyamalan’s Split
10. The Call of the Anthropocene: Resituating the Human Through
Trans- & Posthumanism. Notes of Otherness in Works of Jeff
VanderMeer and Cixin Liu
11. “Am I a person?”: Biotech Animals and Posthumanist Empathy
in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne
12. Posthuman Cure: Biological and Cultural Motherhood in
Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam
13. Posthuman Transformation in Helen Marshall’s The Migration
Conclusion: Towards a Post-Pandemic, (Post)Human World
Index