The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics: Human, Superhuman, Transhuman, Post/Human

By S. Jeffery

.Introduction: The Posthuman in Superhero Comics.-.Part I: Posthumanism in Theory and Practice.-.1. What is Posthumanism?.-.2. The Rhizome of Comic Book Culture.-.Part II: Posthumanism and the Comic Book Superhero.-.3. The Perfect Body.-.4. The Cosmic Body.-.5. The Military-Industrial Body.-.6. Artificial and Animal Bodies.-.Part III: Becoming Posthuman.-.7. Reading the Superhuman.-.8. Readers on Transhumanism and Post/Humanism.-.9. Towards a Theory of Reader-Text Assemblages.-.10. Possible Selves and Realizable Futures.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113757822X
• ISBN13: 9781137578228
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.7"