Out Now: “In the Web: Contemporary Posthumanist Narrations”

The DFG-funded Network PRANA (Posthuman Research and Narration) hast just published its first essay collection on posthumanist narrative techniques in contemporary literature and culture, featuring a contribution by our doctoral reasearcher Ruxandra Teodorescu.

Her contribution examines the tentacular narrative style of Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea (2022). The interspecies communication narrated exposes the limitations of our perceived spheres of interaction and shows how subjective experience constitutes the worlds we perceive and create. It demonstrates how the novel advocates a post-anthropocentric reassessment of human-centred frameworks of knowledge.