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Zoe Jaques - Children´s Literature and the Posthuman: Animal, Environment, Cyborg - 9780415818438 - V9780415818438
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Children´s Literature and the Posthuman: Animal, Environment, Cyborg

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Description for Children´s Literature and the Posthuman: Animal, Environment, Cyborg Hardback. Series: Children's Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 284 pages, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 530.

An investigation of identity formation in children's literature, this book brings together children’s literature and recent critical concerns with posthuman identity to argue that children’s fiction offers sophisticated interventions into debates about what it means to be human, and in particular about humanity’s relationship to animals and the natural world. In complicating questions of human identity, ecology, gender, and technology, Jaques engages with a multifaceted posthumanism to understand how philosophy can emerge from children's fantasy, disclosing how such fantasy can build upon earlier traditions to represent complex issues of humanness to younger audiences. Interrogating the place of the human through ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Children's Literature and Culture
Condition
New
Weight
530g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415818438
SKU
V9780415818438
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Zoe Jaques
Zoe Jaques is Lecturer in Children’s Literature and Education at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Homerton College. She is co-author of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass: A Publishing History (2013).

Reviews for Children´s Literature and the Posthuman: Animal, Environment, Cyborg
"Jaques uncovers the posthuman nature of characters and types that we recognize from children’s literature: talking animals and plants, and the uncanny half-life of toys and robots are discussed through the lens of philosophers like Donna Haraway and Jacques Derrida... Jaques’s study successfully makes some interesting connections and convincingly argues for children’s literature, a place where non-traditional subjectivities are often ... Read more

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