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T1 Posthuman “Meta(l)morphoses” in Jeanette Winterson’s "The Stone Gods"
T2 "Meta(l)morfosis" posthumanas en "The Stone Gods" de Jeanette Winterson
A1 Yazgünoğlu, Kerim Can
K1 Jeanette Winterson
K1 The Stone Gods
K1 Posthumanism
K1 Trans-corporeality
K1 Material agency
K1 Naturecultures
K1 Posthumanismo
K1 Trans-corporalidad
K1 Agencia material
K1 Naturaculturas
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB Jeanette Winterson’s “The Stone Gods” (2007) pictures a futuristic world in which every body is technologically, discursively, and materially constructed. First of all, "The Stone Gods" foregrounds the  futuristic  conceptualization  of  embodiment  and  posthuman  gendered  bodies  in  relation  to biotechnology,  biogenetics,  and  robotics,  interrogating  contemporary  dimensions  of  the  interface between   the   human   and   the   machine,   nature   and   culture.Secondly,   the   novel   focuses   on environmental  concerns  relevant  to  our  present  age.  More  specifically,  however,  drawing  our attention to posthuman toxic bodies in terms of “trans-corporeality,” as suggested by Stacy Alaimo, “The  Stone  Gods” is  an  invaluable literary means to speculate on our “posthuman predicament,” in Rosi Braidotti’s words, and global ecological imperilment. In “The  Stone  Gods”, Winterson  provides not  only  a  warning  against  the  dehumanization  of  the  human  in  the  process  of  posthumanization, but  also  a  salient  picture  of  posthuman  trans-corporeal  subjects  through  a  discussion  of  the beneficial    and    deleterious    effects    of    biotechnology    and    machines    on    human-nonhuman “naturecultures.” On this view, looking at both human and nonhuman bodies througha  trans-corporeal  lens  would  contribute  to  an  understanding  of  how  material-discursive  structures  can profoundly transform human-nonhuman life on Earth.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
SN 2171-9594
YR 2016
FD 2016-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/25558
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/25558
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 24-abr-2024