DeFalco, A orcid.org/0000-0003-2021-5714 (2023) Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care. Oxford University Press , (224pp). ISBN 9780192886125
Abstract
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.
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Item Type: | Book |
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Keywords: | care, posthumanism, embodiment, relationality, materiality, animals, robots, technology, literary and film criticism, contemporary fiction |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) AH/T004762/1 Wellcome Trust 214963/Z/18/Z |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 May 2022 12:35 |
Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2024 15:36 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192886125.001.0001 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:187047 |