Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities
Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities
Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture
Berry, Sarah L.; Tembo, Kwasu D.; Kim, Myungsung; Miller, Nicholas E.; Brickler, Alexander Dumas J., IV; Escott, Rae'mia; Islam, Md. Monirul; Jimenez, Christian; Hill, Melvin G.; Judd, Bettina
Lexington Books
11/2021
236
Mole
Inglês
9781498583824
15 a 20 dias
381
Melvin G. Hill
Chapter One. "European Mind. . .Engrafted upon the African constitution:" Robert Southey's Theory of Miscegenation in the Tranhumanist Context
Md. Monirul Islam
Chapter Two. The Mystery of the Invisible Drop: Pauline Hopkins's Transhumanist Challenge to Race Science
Sarah L. Berry
Chapter Three. Arthurian Legend, Algorithmic Code, and Racialized Technology: Technocultural Allusions in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada
Myungsung Kim
Chapter Four. Transmedial Posthumanisms: Unmaking the Black Body in Octavia Butler's Kindred and its Graphic Novel Adaptation
Nicholas E. Miller
Chapter Five. "A Dangerous Idea:" Human Enhancement, Transhuman Desirability, Binary Identity Negotiation, and "Mistranthropy" in George S. Schuyler's Black No More
Melvin G. Hill
Chapter Six. Transhumanism in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Rae'Mia Escott
Chapter Seven. Glossolalia: Lucille Clifton's Creative Technologies of Becoming
Bettina Judd
Chapter Eight. Soul in the Shell: Steven Barnes's Aubry Knight Trilogy, Black Cyborgs, and Cyberpunk Investigations of Technological Black Bodies
Alexander Dumas J. Brickler IV
Chapter Nine. Revising the White Cyborg: The Interstitial Heroism of Del Spooner in I, Robot and Charles Gunn in Angel
Christian Jimenez
Chapter Ten. On the (Un)Becoming of Cindi Mayweather: The Transhumanist Gynoid Performativity of Janelle Monae
Kwasu D. Tembo
Index
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Melvin G. Hill
Chapter One. "European Mind. . .Engrafted upon the African constitution:" Robert Southey's Theory of Miscegenation in the Tranhumanist Context
Md. Monirul Islam
Chapter Two. The Mystery of the Invisible Drop: Pauline Hopkins's Transhumanist Challenge to Race Science
Sarah L. Berry
Chapter Three. Arthurian Legend, Algorithmic Code, and Racialized Technology: Technocultural Allusions in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada
Myungsung Kim
Chapter Four. Transmedial Posthumanisms: Unmaking the Black Body in Octavia Butler's Kindred and its Graphic Novel Adaptation
Nicholas E. Miller
Chapter Five. "A Dangerous Idea:" Human Enhancement, Transhuman Desirability, Binary Identity Negotiation, and "Mistranthropy" in George S. Schuyler's Black No More
Melvin G. Hill
Chapter Six. Transhumanism in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Rae'Mia Escott
Chapter Seven. Glossolalia: Lucille Clifton's Creative Technologies of Becoming
Bettina Judd
Chapter Eight. Soul in the Shell: Steven Barnes's Aubry Knight Trilogy, Black Cyborgs, and Cyberpunk Investigations of Technological Black Bodies
Alexander Dumas J. Brickler IV
Chapter Nine. Revising the White Cyborg: The Interstitial Heroism of Del Spooner in I, Robot and Charles Gunn in Angel
Christian Jimenez
Chapter Ten. On the (Un)Becoming of Cindi Mayweather: The Transhumanist Gynoid Performativity of Janelle Monae
Kwasu D. Tembo
Index
About the Editor
About the Contributors