Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture (Paperback, 1)

Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman, and Posthuman: Striving for More Ethical CohabitationSanna Karkulehto, Aino-Kaisi Koistinen, Karoliina Lummaa, and Essi VarisPart 1. Towards Posthumanist Literature and Posthumanist Reading1 On the Possibility of a Posthuman/ist Literature(s)Carole Guesse2 Posthumanist Reading: Witnessing Ghosts, Summoning Nonhuman PowersKaroliina Lummaa3 Becoming-instrument: Thinking with Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation and Timothy Morton's HyperobjectsKaisa KortekallioPart 2. Imagining Aliens and Monsters4 Alien Overtures: Speculating about Nonhuman Experiences with Comic Book CharactersEssi Varis5 Playing the Nonhuman: Alien Experiences in Aliens vs. PredatorJonne Arjoranta6 Wild Things Squeezed in the Closet: Monsters of Children’s Literature as Nonhuman OthersMarleena Mustola and Sanna KarkulehtoPart 3. Becoming with Animals7 Dead Dog Talking: Posthumous, Preposthumous, and Preposterous Canine Narration in Charles Siebert’s AngusMikko Keskinen8 Carnivorous Anatomies: Art and Being BeastsBrad Bolman9 Reconfiguring Human and Nonhuman Animals in a Guiding Assemblage: Towards Posthumanist Conception of DisabilityHana PorkertovaPart 4. Technological (Co-)Agencies10 Meeting the Machine Halfway: Towards Non-Anthropocentric SemioticsCleo Collomb and Samuel Goyet 11 Journeys in Intensity: Human and Nonhuman Co-Agency, Neuropower, and Counterplay in MinecraftMarleena Huuhka12 Cyborganic Wearables: Sociotechnical Misbehavior and the Evolution of Nonhuman AgencyPatricia Flanagan and Raune Frankjær Part 5. Afterword: Unnarratable Matter?13 Unnarratable Matter: Emergence, Narrative, and Material EcocriticismJuha Raipola