Smith, Carissa Turner.
Cyborg Saints Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction. [electronic resource] : - Milton : Routledge, 2019. - 1 online resource (261 p.). - Children's Literature and Culture Ser. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Neomedievalist Saints and the Embodiment of Hagiographic History; 2 Cyborg Saints, Born and Made; 3 "Are We Not All Things?": Relics, Posthumanist Agency, and Intersubjectivity; 4 The Virgin Martyr of Comics: Distributed Agency and Saintly Iconography; 5 Posthumanist Pilgrimage: Trans-corporeal Journeys; 6 "Holy Dog!": Animal Studies, Tolerance Discourse, and Posthumanist Ethics; Conclusion; References; Index
Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction, as recent prominent novels by Socorro Acioli, Julie Berry, Adam Gidwitz, Rachel Hartman, Merrie Haskell, Gene Luen Yang, and others demonstrate. Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction makes the radical claim that these holy medieval figures are actually the new cyborgs in that they dethrone the autonomous subject of humanist modernity. While young people navigate political and personal forces, as well as technologies, that threaten to fragment and thingify them, saints show that agency is still possible outside of the humanist construct of subjectivity. The saints of these neomedievalist novels, through living a life vulnerable to the other, attain a distributed agency that accomplishes miracles through bodies and places and things (relics, icons, pilgrimage sites, and ultimately the hagiographic text and its reader) spread across time. Cyborg Saints analyzes MG and YA fiction through the triple lens of posthumanism, neomedievalism, and postsecularism. Cyborg Saints charts new ground in joining religion and posthumanism to represent the creativity and diversity of young people's fiction.
9780429510366 0429510365 9780429201691 0429201699 9780429517228 042951722X 9780429513794 0429513798
LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature
Children's stories--History and criticism.
Young adult fiction--History and criticism.
Religion in literature.
Saints in literature.
Cyborgs in literature.
PN1009.A1
809.93382083
Cyborg Saints Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction. [electronic resource] : - Milton : Routledge, 2019. - 1 online resource (261 p.). - Children's Literature and Culture Ser. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Neomedievalist Saints and the Embodiment of Hagiographic History; 2 Cyborg Saints, Born and Made; 3 "Are We Not All Things?": Relics, Posthumanist Agency, and Intersubjectivity; 4 The Virgin Martyr of Comics: Distributed Agency and Saintly Iconography; 5 Posthumanist Pilgrimage: Trans-corporeal Journeys; 6 "Holy Dog!": Animal Studies, Tolerance Discourse, and Posthumanist Ethics; Conclusion; References; Index
Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction, as recent prominent novels by Socorro Acioli, Julie Berry, Adam Gidwitz, Rachel Hartman, Merrie Haskell, Gene Luen Yang, and others demonstrate. Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction makes the radical claim that these holy medieval figures are actually the new cyborgs in that they dethrone the autonomous subject of humanist modernity. While young people navigate political and personal forces, as well as technologies, that threaten to fragment and thingify them, saints show that agency is still possible outside of the humanist construct of subjectivity. The saints of these neomedievalist novels, through living a life vulnerable to the other, attain a distributed agency that accomplishes miracles through bodies and places and things (relics, icons, pilgrimage sites, and ultimately the hagiographic text and its reader) spread across time. Cyborg Saints analyzes MG and YA fiction through the triple lens of posthumanism, neomedievalism, and postsecularism. Cyborg Saints charts new ground in joining religion and posthumanism to represent the creativity and diversity of young people's fiction.
9780429510366 0429510365 9780429201691 0429201699 9780429517228 042951722X 9780429513794 0429513798
LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature
Children's stories--History and criticism.
Young adult fiction--History and criticism.
Religion in literature.
Saints in literature.
Cyborgs in literature.
PN1009.A1
809.93382083