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Posthuman Topics in Literature and Other Arts
ed. Bogumiła Suwara
Since its emergence as a genre, science fiction has dealt with the concept of human transformation. In various narratives describing the encounter of people with posthumans or aliens, human stereotypes, human nature and the humanistic paradigm itself are exposed to the challenge and critical reflection which posthumanism has introduced and developed within the contemporary humanities. The articles in this issue are focused on identifying transhuman and posthuman themes and motifs in both literary and artistic forms of science fiction (including bioart, film and television series) from a posthumanist perspective.
OBSAH / CONTENTS
editoriál / editorial
Bogumiła Suwara
Posthuman topics in literature and other arts ■ 2 (go to article)
štúdie / articles
Mariusz Pisarski
Human, super-human, anti-human: The posthuman deep future in evolutionary science fiction ■ 3 (go to article)
Peter Sýkora
Post-dog tales about human extinction ■ 18 (go to article)
Jana Tomašovičová
Parallels between two worlds: Literary science-fiction imagery and transhumanist visions ■ 31 (go to article)
Ivan Lacko
Saviors, naifs, or orphans? The posthuman condition in literary and cinematic perspectives on human cloning ■ 43 (go to article)
Jozef Lenč
From “andys” to “toasters”: How has politics affected the view of non-humans in “Blade Runner” and “Battlestar Galactica”? ■ 55 (go to article)
Juraj Odorčák
Homo artefactus and Promethean shame: Reflections on Josef Čapek, Futurism, transhumanism, posthumanism, and the Obvious ■ 68 (go to article)
Bobumiła Suwara
Toward a bioethical perspective for posthumanist aesthetics: Bioart as an example ■ 81 (go to article)recenzie / book reviews
Francesca Ferrando: Philosophical Posthumanism (Pavlína Bakošová) ■ 97 (go to article)
Richard Müller, Tomáš Chudý a kol.: Za obrysy média. Literatura a medialita [Beyond the Horizons of the Medium. Literature and Mediality] (Marek Debnár – Bogumiła Suwara) ■ 100 (go to article)
Bogumiła Suwara – Mariusz Pisarski (eds.): Remediation: Crossing Discursive Boundaries. Central European Perspective (Katarína Ihringová) ■ 102 (go to article)
Judit Görözdi: Dejiny v súčasných maďarských románoch [History in Contemporary Hungarian Novels] (L. Patrik Baka) ■ 105 (go to article)
Renáta Bojničanová – Tamara Šimončíková-Heribanová (eds.): Komplexnosť tvorivosti. Zborník príspevkov k jubileu Márie Bátorovej [The Complexity of Creativity. Proceedings for the jubilee of Mária Bátorová] (Tatiana Sedová) ■ 109 (go to article) -
The Location of Utopia
eds. Péter Hajdu – Róbert Gáfrik
The geographical and temporal orientation of European and non-European utopias seem to differ in many politico-cultural aspects. The articles collected in this issue demonstrate that national and cultural determination can still be perceived, and they confirm the attention paid to the issues of nationalism, colonialism, or religious imperialism in utopia studies. Moreover, some of the authors show that an interplay between the culture of origin and the local/cultural otherness of the imagined elsewhere allows for an imagological approach to utopias.
OBSAH / CONTENTS
editoriál / editorial
Péter Hajdu – Róbert gáfrik
The location of utopia ■ 2 (go to article)(WLS2_2021_editorial)
Štúdie / articles
JOHANNES D. KA MINSKI
Leaving Gaia behind: The ethics of space migration in Cixin Liu’s and Neal Stephenson’s science fiction ■ 3 (go to article)
YIPING WANG – PING ZHU
Shanghai and the Chinese utopia in the early 20th century as presented in “The New Story of the Stone” ■ 19 (go to article)
XIA NGCHUN MENG – LIRONG ZHANG
Chinese utopia: Its evolution, poetic anchorage and modern transformation ■ 33 (go to article)
SEVAL ŞAHİN – DİDE M ARDA LI BÜYÜKAR MAN
The Islamist version of utopia: The politics of redesigning space ■ 43 (go to article)
PÉTER HAJDU
Mór Jókai’s Asian utopia(s) ■ 56 (go to article)
SÁNDOR HITES
National internationalism in late 19th-century utopias by Mór Jókai, Edward Bellamy, and William Morris ■ 69 (go to article)
LIBOR MAREK
Three undiscovered utopias in German-language literature from the Czech periphery: Moravian Wallachia and Zlín ■ 81 (go to article)
Recenzie / book reviews
Norbert Bachleitner – Achim Hölter – John A. McCarthy (eds.): Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (Igor Tyšš) ■ 99 (go to article)
Ágnes Györke – Imola Bülgözdi (eds.): Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture: Central Europe and the West (Rana Yürüker) ■ 101 (go to article)
Csongor Lőrincz – Péter L. Varga (eds.): Herausforderung der Literatur: Péter Esterházy [The Challenge of Literature: Péter Esterházy], András Kányádi (ed.): Péter Esterházy et le postmodernisme [Péter Esterházy and Postmodernism] (Stephan Krause) ■ 105 (go to article)
Katarína Bešková: Súčasná egyptská literatúra: Dystópia, cenzúra a Arabská jar [Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Dystopia, Censorship and the Arab Spring] (Danuša Čižmíková) ■ 107 (go to article)
Vladimír Papoušek a kol.: Pokušení neviditelného. Myšlení moderny [The Temptation of the Invisible: The Thinking of Modernism] (Zuzana Kopecká) ■ 110 (go to article)
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