Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care

Curious Kin reimagines care theory to account for the complexity of posthuman interdependencies. It does so by collecting twenty-first-century texts that imagine unconventional caregiving that challenges the anthropocentric assumptions of humanist care models and offer provocative alternatives that convey the messy complexity of posthuman care. The book analyzes these contemporary literary and cinematic speculations of more-than-human companionship in relation to numerous critical discourses—posthumanism, care philosophy, feminist materialism, affect theory, critical race theory, Indigenous studies—in order to propose a dynamic model of posthuman care that addresses humans and nonumans as mutually constituting, vulnerable, embodied, and embedded companion species.