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Modernism's Inhuman Worlds - by Rasheed Tazudeen (Hardcover)

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  • Modernism's Inhuman Worlds explores the centrality of ecological precarity, species indeterminacy, planetary change, and the specter of extinction to modernist and contemporary metamodernist literatures.
  • About the Author: Rasheed Tazudeen is Lecturer in English at Yale University.
  • 300 Pages
  • Literary Criticism, Modern

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"Study of animal metaphor in particular and the literary representation of animals more generally in the Victorian and modernist periods"--



Book Synopsis



Modernism's Inhuman Worlds explores the centrality of ecological precarity, species indeterminacy, planetary change, and the specter of extinction to modernist and contemporary metamodernist literatures. Modernist ecologies, Rasheed Tazudeen argues, emerge in response to the enigma of how to imagine inhuman being--including soils, forests, oceans, and the earth itself--through languages and epistemologies that have only ever been humanist. How might (meta)modernist aesthetics help us to imagine (with) inhuman worlds, including the worlds still to be made on the other side of mass extinction?

Through innovative readings of canonical and emergent modernist and metamodernist works, Tazudeen theorizes inhuman modernism as a call toward further receptivity to the worlds, beings, and relations that tend to go unthought within Western humanist epistemologies. Modernist engagements with the figures of enigma, riddle, and metaphor, according to the book's central argument, offer a means toward what Franz Kafka calls an "otherwise" speaking, based on language's obliqueness to inhuman and planetary being. Drawing on ecocriticism, decolonial and feminist science studies, postcolonial theory, inhuman geography, and sound studies, Tazudeen analyzes an inhuman modernist lineage--spanning from Darwin, Carroll, and Flaubert, through Joyce, Kafka, and Woolf, to contemporary poetic works--as both part of a collaborative rethinking of modernism's planetary and inhuman aesthetics, as well as occasions for imagining new modes of livingness for the extinctions to come.



About the Author



Rasheed Tazudeen is Lecturer in English at Yale University.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .81 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.34 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 300
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: Modern
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Theme: 16th Century
Format: Hardcover
Author: Rasheed Tazudeen
Language: English
Street Date: August 15, 2024
TCIN: 92742416
UPC: 9781501776496
Item Number (DPCI): 247-35-8886
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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