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Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction: The Posthuman Subject (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)
Victoria Flanagan
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Description for Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction: The Posthuman Subject (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)
Hardcover. Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction is not a historical study or a survey of narrative plots, but takes a more conceptual approach that engages with the central ideas of posthumanism: the fragmented nature of posthuman identity, the concept of agency as distributed and collective and the role of embodiment in understandings of selfhood. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction is not a historical study or a survey of narrative plots, but takes a more conceptual approach that engages with the central ideas of posthumanism: the fragmented nature of posthuman identity, the concept of agency as distributed and collective and the role of embodiment in understandings of selfhood.
Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction is not a historical study or a survey of narrative plots, but takes a more conceptual approach that engages with the central ideas of posthumanism: the fragmented nature of posthuman identity, the concept of agency as distributed and collective and the role of embodiment in understandings of selfhood.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
Number of Pages
205
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137362056
SKU
V9781137362056
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Ref
99-15
About Victoria Flanagan
Victoria Flanagan is a senior lecturer in English at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, and the convenor of the MA in Children's Literature. Her research focuses on transgressive gender representations and the application of posthuman ideology to children's texts. She is the author of Into the Closet: Cross-dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature and Film (2008).
Reviews for Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction: The Posthuman Subject (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)
“An ambitious project in the Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature Series … . Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction: The Posthuman Subject is a wellthought- out and excellently argued book. The author manages to present a positive image of posthumanism in YA literature as a driving force behind novel identities of the digital age and offers numerous insightful ideas ... Read more