| Popis: |
Contemporary French fiction fits within a broader trend that seeks to question the end of humans. In the context of the Anthropocene where ecological disasters threaten human’s life and habitat, many disciplines such as literature, philosophy and cognitive sciences study the relations between humans and non-humans. Posthumanism envisions a world that reconfigures the terms imposed by classical humanism and anthropocentricism. It seeks to redefine where humans stand, by considering the co-constitutive links that emerge from interactions between humans, other living species, and technology. Fiction constitutes a privileged space to develop a posthumanist discourse as it aims to create different worlds. Le Club des miracles relatifs, by Nancy Huston; L’Invention des corps, by Pierre Ducrozet, and Notre vie dans les forêts, by Marie Darrieussecq raise questions about what it means to be human and seem to build a new type of fiction, a posthumanist fiction. |
