Black bodies and transhuman realities : scientifically modifying the black body in posthuman literature and culture /: scientifically modifying the black body in posthuman literature and culture. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Melvin G. Hill.
• Editors: Hill, Melvin G
• Contents: Introduction: Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities ; ; Melvin G. Hill ; ; ; Chapter One. “European Mind. . .Engrafted upon the African constitution:” Robert Southey’s Theory of Miscegenation in the Tranhumanist Context ; ; Md. Monirul Islam ; ; Chapter Two. The Mystery of the Invisible Drop: Pauline Hopkins’s Transhumanist Challenge to Race Science ; ; Sarah L. Berry ; ; Chapter Three. Arthurian Legend, Algorithmic Code, and Racialized Technology: Technocultural Allusions in Ishmael Reed’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Flight to Canada ; ; Myungsung Kim ; ; Chapter Four. Transmedial Posthumanisms: Unmaking the Black Body in Octavia Butler’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Kindred and its Graphic Novel Adaptation ; ; Nicholas E. Miller ; ; Chapter Five. “A Dangerous Idea:” Human Enhancement, Transhuman Desirability, Binary Identity Negotiation, and “Mistranthropy” in George S. Schuyler’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Black No More ; ; Melvin G. Hill ; ; Chapter Six. Transhumanism in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye ; ; Rae’Mia Escott ; ; Chapter Seven. Glossolalia: Lucille Clifton’s Creative Technologies of Becoming ; ; Bettina Judd ; ; Chapter Eight. Soul in the Shell: Steven Barnes’s Aubry Knight Trilogy, Black Cyborgs, and Cyberpunk Investigations of Technological Black Bodies ; ; Alexander Dumas J. Brickler IV ; ; Chapter Nine. Revising the White Cyborg: The Interstitial Heroism of Del Spooner in <span style="font-style:italic;">I, Robot and Charles Gunn in <span style="font-style:italic;">Angel ; ; Christian Jimenez ; ; Chapter Ten. On the (Un)Becoming of Cindi Mayweather: The Transhumanist Gynoid Performativity of Janelle Monáe ; ; Kwasu D. Tembo ; ; ; Index ; ; About the Editor ; ; About the Contributors
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 809.933561; Literature -- History and criticism; Human body in literature; Blacks in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498583817
• Related ISBNs: 9781498583800
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