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The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity
This volume focuses on language and ethics in literary genres, such as dystopia, science fiction, and fantasy, that depict encounters with alterity. Indeed, so-called “genre literature” embodies a heuristic model that dramatizes and exacerbates these encounters by featuring exotic, subhuman or post-human beings that defy human knowledge, elements particularly prevalent in science fiction and fantasy. These genres have often been regarded as an entertaining or escapist field that does not lend itself to ethical and poetical reflections, limiting its scope to a hollow and servile repetition of genre codes. This volume shows unequivocally that this field does lend itself to such reflections...
Figures of Radical Absence
Although post-structuralism has highlighted the importance of what is offstage, lost, forgotten, hidden or discarded, silent or silenced, the poetics and politics of absence (much like its ethics and aesthetics) have rarely been discussed across media or disciplines. The book conceptualizes 'radical absence' to describe a certain tradition of resistance to ontology, predication, and representation, contesting their reliance on a metaphysics of presence. Apophatic speech, empty signifiers, and figural voids are some of the figures through which radical absence becomes apparent, with unprecedented intensity, in 20th-century theory, literature, film, and the arts. Phantasmatic and outrageous, s...
Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human
This volume explores works from Latin American literary and visual culture that question what it means to be human and examine the ways humans and nonhumans shape one another. In doing so, it provides new perspectives on how the region challenges and adds to global conversations about humanism and the posthuman. Contributors identify posthumanist themes across a range of different materials, including an anecdote about a plague of rabbits in Historia de las Indias by Spanish historian Bartolomé de las Casas, photography depicting desert landscapes at the site of Brazil’s War of Canudos, and digital and installation art portraying victims of state-sponsored and drug violence in Colombia an...
Pandemic Protagonists
During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to »pandemic fictions« or started to produce their own »Corona Fictions« across different media. These accounts of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises feature a great variety of protagonists and their (re)actions in response to the exceptional circumstances. The contributors to this volume take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists in fictional narratives relating to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in existing pandemic fictions. Thereby they provide new insights into pandemic narratives from a cultural, literary, and media studies perspective from antiquity to today.
Post-Apartheid Gothic
Post-Apartheid Gothic: White South African Writers and Space analyzes the representation of space in recent works by South African writers. By combining analytical tools borrowed from Gothic studies with geocritical and postcolonial approaches, Mélanie Joseph-Vilain assesses the literary mechanisms utilized by Damon Galgut, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Lauren Beukes, Justin Carwright, and Lynn Freed to negotiate the complexities of post-apartheid identities in their fiction. Joseph-Vilain argues that the literary representations of emblematic places, real or imagined (the home, the farm, the city or the “non-places” of dystopia), express and reveal anxieties linked to the sharing of space in p...
L'univers des champignons
L’univers des champignons est fascinant et on ne manque pas d’excellents ouvrages sur le marché pour l’explorer. Par son approche encyclopédique, ce livre se veut un peu différent et se situe dans un registre autre que celui du guide pratique d’identification ou de consommation. Il a entre autres objectifs de faire découvrir des aspects importants de cet univers qui restent étonnamment méconnus. Des spécialistes chevronnés se sont rassemblés autour de ce projet pour faire le point dans leurs domaines respectifs : mycologie, phylogénétique, écologie, biodiversité, phytopathologie, toxicologie, comestibilité, santé, alimentation, culture, commercialisation, histoire, ethnomycologie, cuisine et littérature. Ils traitent aussi bien des champignons microscopiques, comme les levures ou les moisissures, que des plus volumineux, comme les bolets ou les amanites, qu’on rencontre en forêt ou dans les prés, et qui suscitent, suivant le cas, de la curiosité, de l’admiration, de l’appréhension ou de la convoitise. On trouvera ici une synthèse magistrale des connaissances actuelles, soutenue par des illustrations et des schémas d’une qualité exceptionnelle.
La mort intranquille. Autopsie du zombie
Comment expliquer cet engouement pour la figure du mort-vivant ? Le zombie n’est pas cantonné au régime fictionnel. On le retrouve dans des annonces publicitaires, dans des ouvrages didactiques et dans l’espace public.
Les Récits du posthumain
L'invention d'un homme « augment頻, infiniment dopé par les prouesses numériques et les biotechnologies, est à nos portes : voulons-nous de ce monde que le posthumanisme nous promet ?
La cançó dels maorís (Núvol blanc 2)
La novel·la més esperada, per l'autora d'al país del núvol blanc, que ha captivat milions de lectors a tot el món. Després de l’èxit d’Al país del núvol blanc, un fenomen de boca en boca, sense precedents en llengua catalana, que ha convertit a Sarah Lark en unaautèntica sorpresa editorial, arriba ara l’esperada continuació d’aquesta inoblidable saga familiar, ambientada a l’exòtic marc de Nova Zelanda. A 'La cançó dels maoris', les cosines Elaine i Kura es debatran entre les arrels angleses i la crida del poblemaori per a forjar el seu propi destí. En temps convulsos, viuran els vaivens d’una terra comparada amb el paradís, on arriben misteriosos desconeguts deci...
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