000147196 001__ 147196 000147196 005__ 20241212141913.0 000147196 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1386/ejac_00128_1 000147196 0248_ $$2sideral$$a140952 000147196 037__ $$aART-2024-140952 000147196 041__ $$aeng 000147196 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-7144-9583$$aAbizanda Cardona, María$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000147196 245__ $$aBeyond SF: Reading the posthuman in crime fiction 000147196 260__ $$c2024 000147196 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000147196 5203_ $$aScience fiction (SF)’s capacity to imagine alternative futures, embodiments and forms of agency is a crucial resource for the ethical project of critical posthumanism. In the twenty-first century, however, science-fictionality has surpassed its traditional generic boundaries to become a tool for comprehending and intervening in our changing reality, made concrete in different media and styles. This has translated into a rise of recombinant genre fiction, whereby themes and scenarios related to technoscience are addressed by genres other than SF. One illustrative instance of this tendency is the burgeoning body of works that integrate the conventions of SF and crime fiction, which have been steadily on the rise for the past five years in anglophone literary markets. Aiming to open up new avenues for the study of this critically unexplored corpus, this article sets out to assemble a critical apparatus for examining the representation of posthumanity in these hybrid texts. Drawing from an approach to crime fiction as a vector for dialectically exploring social and ethical questions, this article will argue that the constituent elements of the genre, namely its close interrelation with technological breakthroughs, its ambivalent engagement with the legacy of Enlightenment humanism and its affinity with interrogations of the exploitative workings of neo-liberalism, make crime fiction a productive locus for challenging dominant conceptions of the posthuman, as well as for articulating alternative visions indexed to critical posthumanist thought. 000147196 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA-FSE/H03-23R$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MCIU/FPU21/02484$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2022-137627NB-I00 000147196 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby-nc-nd$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 000147196 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000147196 7102_ $$13004$$2345$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.$$cÁrea Filología Inglesa 000147196 773__ $$g43, 3 (2024), 287-303$$pEur. j. am. cult.$$tEuropean journal of American culture$$x1466-0407 000147196 8564_ $$s408469$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/147196/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000147196 8564_ $$s1351157$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/147196/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000147196 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:147196$$particulos$$pdriver 000147196 951__ $$a2024-12-12-12:44:47 000147196 980__ $$aARTICLE