Representing post(human) enhancement technologies in twenty-first century US fiction / Carmen Laguarta-Bueno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laguarta-Bueno, Carmen, 1993- author.

Series:

Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture.

Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Powers, Richard, 1957- Generosity.

Powers, Richard.

Eggers, Dave. Circle.

Eggers, Dave.

DeLillo, Don. Zero K.

DeLillo, Don.

American fiction.

American fiction--History and criticism.

Human body and technology in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

"This work studies three twenty-first century novels by Richard Powers, Dave Eggers and Don DeLillo as representative of a new trend of US fiction concerned with the topic of the technological augmentation of the human condition. The different chapters provide, from the double perspective of the optimistic transhumanist philosophy and the more balanced approach of critical posthumanism, an overview of the narrative strategies used by the writers to explore the possibilities that biotechnology, digital technologies and cryonics open up to transcend our human limitations, while also warning their readers of their most nefarious consequences. Ultimately, the book puts forward the claim that even if the writers approach the subject from a variety of perspectives and using different narrative styles and techniques, they all share a critical posthumanist fear that an unrestrained and unquestioned use of technology for enhancement purposes may bring about disembodiment and dehumanization"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Richard Powers's Generosity: An Enhancement (2009): A Metafictional Reflection on the Biotechnological Pursuit of Happiness

When Utopia Meets Dystopia: Social Media Tools and Surveillance Devices in Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013)

Don DeLillo's Zero K (2016): Transhumanism, Trauma, and the Ethics of Premature Cryopreservation.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Laguarta-Bueno, Carmen Representing (Post)Human Enhancement Technologies in Twenty-First Century US Fiction

ISBN:

1-00-327640-7

1-003-27640-7

1-000-65533-4

9781003276401

OCLC:

1330424496