Nonhuman Agencies in the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030794423
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎9783030794422
• Author: Yvonne Liebermann, Judith Rahn , Bettina Burger

Table contents:

Section I. Nonhuman Poetics: Agency of Literary Forms

1. Forms of Agency, Agency of Forms: Reading and Teaching More-Than-Human Fictions
2. Nonhuman Agencies in and of Literature: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea
3. Deontologising the Nonhuman: Arthur Gordon Pym, Contemporary Literature, and the Limits of the Human
4. Section II. Negotiating the Human in the Light of the Nonhuman
5. Anthropogenesis: Ian McEwan’s Fictions of the Human
6. Arctic Snowmobilities: Encounters with Sled Dogs in Gary Paulsen’s Winterdance
7. Reframing the Nonhuman: Grievability and the Value of Life in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
8. Hopeless Necromantics: Decomposition and Transcorporeal Love in Jim Crace’s Being Dead

Section III. Imagining Biocentric Communities

1. The Gender Politics of Trees
2. ‘Mycorrhizal Multiplicities’: Mapping Collective Agency in Richard Powers’s The Overstory
3. The Climate Crisis and Affective Nonhuman Encounters: Ali Smith’s Autumn (2016) and Jon McGregor’s Reservoir 13 (2017)
4. Postcolonial Fictions of the Anthropocene: Tracing Nonhuman Agency in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing
5. Section IV. Negotiating Reality: Approaching the Nonhuman’s Inescapable Alterity
6. Cthulhu Calling: Weird Intimacy and Estrangement in the Anthropocene
7. “Just a Surface”: Anamorphic Perspective and Nonhuman Narration in Jeff VanderMeer’s The Strange Bird
8. “All Life Matters, or None Does”: Connecting Human and Nonhuman W

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