TECHNOLOGICAL PRACTICES OF EMBODIMENT REFLECTED IN JEANETTE WINTERSON'S FICTIONAL FRAMING OF POSTHUMAN SUBJECTS.

Focusing on The PowerBook and The Stone Gods, this article explores the ways in which Jeanette Winterson articulates the interconnections between consciousness and memory, delineates their role in identity formation and reveals how posthuman subjects' practices of embodiment work to undermine both h...

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Publicado en:Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies & Theory Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 130 - 148
Autor principal: PREDA, Alina
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Publicado: Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Faculty of Letters Jul2021
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