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Technoculture in Margaret Atwood’s Science Fiction Novels

By: Jasmine Sharma

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This book takes a philosophical approach to technocultural studies in Margaret Atwood’s science fiction. It explores how technology and culture reconstitute her literary landscape, from the gender politics of cyborgs to the hyperreal dimensions of video gaming and digital sex.

The contemporary mediation between technoscience and philosophy offers overwhelming insights into the literary-critical domain of thought. This book conceptualizes an enriching engagement with questions pertaining…
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The contemporary mediation between technoscience and philosophy offers overwhelming insights into the literary-critical domain of thought. This book conceptualizes an enriching engagement with questions pertaining to the notion of technology and how its blend with cultural facets makes comprehensive room for the reconstitution of the literary landscape in Atwood’s science fiction (SF) novels. Ranging from the technologies of disciplinary and bio-corporeal power to theorizing gender politics of cyborgian, nomadic and humanoid bodies, from technologizing the consumption of hybrid edibles and lingual epistemology to discerning the hyperreal dimensions of archived tech-memoirs, video gaming and digital sex, the book takes a philosophical approach to technocultural studies, a newly emerging interdisciplinary methodology. It contributes to an optimal concretization of technoscientific exploration in Margaret Atwood’s literary scholarship and adds to the existing field of theoretical acumen within cosmopolitan literatures.

Jasmine Sharma teaches English at Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies (VIPS), India (affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi). She has previously taught at Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma (ARSD) College and Mata Sundri College for Women (NCWEB centre), University of Delhi. She is a recipient of the University Grants Commission’s Junior Research Fellowship (UGC-JRF) for completing her doctorate, and the Ministry of Education of India’s travel grants to present research papers at the University of London; Jadavpur University, Kolkata; Osmania University, Hyderabad; and the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. She holds a PhD in English, awarded by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) for her thesis titled, “Technopower, Technobodies, Technoconsumption: The Representation of Technoculture in the SF Novels of Margaret Atwood”. Her areas of academic interest include science and speculative fiction, literary theory and criticism, and posthuman studies.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-5275-3194-5
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-3194-9
  • Date of Publication: 2023-09-13

Paperback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-2377-8
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-2377-3
  • Date of Publication: 2024-12-13

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-5275-3202-X
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-3202-1
  • Date of Publication: 2024-12-13
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  • BIC: DSK, FA, FL
  • THEMA: DSK, FBA, FL
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