Mapping Literature: Geocritical Thinking and Posthumanism
Mapping Literature: Geocritical Thinking and Posthumanism

Summary/Abstract: Despite not having the same theoretical background, spatial and posthumanist studies overlap in visions and offer solutions capable of deciphering the new global order and the new human sensibility. Even if geocritical thinkers and specialists on literary geography do not make use of the findings in posthumanism and thinkers on posthumanism seldom refer to spatial and geographic studies, a common ground has indirectly been formed between these two domains. This shared ground is made out of explorations on the new modes of organizing realities and the human elements traversing them. That is why one of the key ideas I want to explore in my study refers to the manner in which recent spatial theories (engaging not exclusively with literature) and posthumanist theories share numerous elements capable of clarifying the contradictory and dynamic traits of our current world.

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