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- Title
POSTHUMANISM AND TRANSHUMANISM THROUGH THE POSTCOLONIAL LENS.
- Authors
Dascălu, Cristina Emanuela
- Abstract
As a consequence of the rapid growth of technological innovations, the world has seen the emergence of discursive fields such as Transhumanism and/or Posthumanism. As it happens to be the case with many other Postmodern discourses, the discourse of Posthumanism seems to be a corollary of Neo-colonialism. Once colonised, now third-world subaltern subject becomes the strategic object of the discourse, since the posthuman man will require its 'other' and the otherness will be realised in the pre-posthuman subaltern agency. The research paper will trace Posthumanism and Transhumanism through the Postcolonial lens taking into account important novels written by emblematic postcolonial writers Salman Rushdie, Bharati Mukherjee and V.S. Naipaul.
- Subjects
RUSHDIE, Salman, 1947-; MUKHERJEE, Bharati, 1940-2017; TRANSHUMANISM; POSTHUMANISM; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations
- Publication
International Journal of Communication Research, 2020, Vol 10, Issue 2, p229
- ISSN
2246-9265
- Publication type
Article