Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture

Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture makes a series of valuable contributions to ongoing dialogues surrounding posthuman blackness and Afro-transhumanism. The collection explores the Black body (self) in the context of transhuman realities from a variety of literary and artistic perspectives. These points of view convey the cultural, political, social, and historical implications that frame the space of Black embodiment, functioning as sites of potentiality and pointing toward the possibility of a transcendental Black subjectivity. In this book, many questions concerning the transformation of the Black body are presented as parallels to philosophical and religious inquiries that have traditionally been addressed from a hegemonic viewpoint. The chapters demonstrate how literature, based on its historical and social contexts, contributes to broader thought about Black transcendence of subjectivity in a posthuman framework, exploring interpretations of the “old” and visions of the “new” human.

Md. Monirul Islam is an Assistant Professor in the Department English, Presidency University, Kolkata, India. He is chiefly interested in studying British Romantics in the global context. He has been awarded the doctoral degree for his research on the Eastern connections of British Romanticism.

Nicholas E. Miller is an independent scholar and holds a PhD in English and American Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, USA.

Kwasu D. Tembo is Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University, UK. His interdisciplinary research agenda includes exploration of ideas including (but not limited to) the philosophy of time, consciousness, Object Oriented Ontology, neo-Darwinism, A.I., (de)Intensification, blackness, fascism, (inter)referentiality in music and archive studies, stochasticity, and psycho-sexuality.