1st Edition
Cyborg Saints Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
By Carissa Smith
Copyright 2020
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction
Chapter One: Neomedievalist Saints and the Embodiment of Hagiographic History
Chapter Two: Cyborg Saints, Born and Made
Chapter Three: "Are We Not All Things?": Relics, Posthumanist Agency, and Intersubjectivity
Chapter Four: The Virgin Martyr of Comics: Distributed Agency and Saintly Iconography
Chapter Five: Posthumanist Pilgrimage: Trans-corporeal Journeys
Chapter Six: "Holy Dog!": Animal Studies, Tolerance Discourse, and Posthumanist Ethics
Biography
Carissa Turner Smith is Professor of English at Charleston Southern University.
