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Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities

Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Cu
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Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture makes a series of valuable contributions to ongoing dialogues surrounding posthuman blackness and Afro-transhumanism. The collection explores the Black body (self) in the context of transhuman realities from a variety of literary and artistic perspectives. These points of view convey the cultural, political, social, and historical implications that frame the space of Black embodiment, functioning as sites of potentiality and pointing toward the possibility of a transcendental Black subjectivity. In this book, many questions concerning the transformation of the Black body are presented as parallels to philosophical and religious inquiries that have traditionally been addressed from a hegemonic viewpoint. The chapters demonstrate how literature, based on its historical and social contexts, contributes to broader thought about Black transcendence of subjectivity in a posthuman framework, exploring interpretations of the "old" and visions of the "new" human.
Introduction: Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities Melvin G. Hill Chapter One. "European Mind. . .Engrafted upon the African constitution:" Robert Southey's Theory of Miscegenation in the Tranhumanist Context Md. Monirul Islam Chapter Two. The Mystery of the Invisible Drop: Pauline Hopkins's Transhumanist Challenge to Race Science Sarah L. Berry Chapter Three. Arthurian Legend, Algorithmic Code, and Racialized Technology: Technocultural Allusions in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada Myungsung Kim Chapter Four. Transmedial Posthumanisms: Unmaking the Black Body in Octavia Butler's Kindred and its Graphic Novel Adaptation Nicholas E. Miller Chapter Five. "A Dangerous Idea:" Human Enhancement, Transhuman Desirability, Binary Identity Negotiation, and "Mistranthropy" in George S. Schuyler's Black No More Melvin G. Hill Chapter Six. Transhumanism in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye Rae'Mia Escott Chapter Seven. Glossolalia: Lucille Clifton's Creative Technologies of Becoming Bettina Judd Chapter Eight. Soul in the Shell: Steven Barnes's Aubry Knight Trilogy, Black Cyborgs, and Cyberpunk Investigations of Technological Black Bodies Alexander Dumas J. Brickler IV Chapter Nine. Revising the White Cyborg: The Interstitial Heroism of Del Spooner in I, Robot and Charles Gunn in Angel Christian Jimenez Chapter Ten. On the (Un)Becoming of Cindi Mayweather: The Transhumanist Gynoid Performativity of Janelle Monae Kwasu D. Tembo Index About the Editor About the Contributors
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