Description
Taking a close look at novels like Ancillary Justice, Aurora, All Systems Red, The Actuality, The Unseen World and Klara and the Sun, this work investigates key questions that arise from the use of AI narrators. It describes how these narratives challenge humanist principles by suggesting that selfhood is an illusion, even as they make the case for extending these principles to machines by proposing that they are not so different from humans. It examines what is at stake with nonhuman narration, the constitutive qualities of AI narratives, and what it might mean to relate to a narrator when the voice adopted is that of an AI.
About the Author
Heather Duerre Humann teaches in the Department of Language and Literature at Florida Gulf Coast University. She is the author of multiple books and has contributed essays to edited collections and published articles, reviews and short stories in African American Review, Women's Studies, South Atlantic Review and Studies in American Culture.
Reviews
The author's analysis of each text is thorough, detailed and convincing."-Dr. Shawn Edrei, Tel-Aviv University
Book Information
ISBN 9781476689326
Author Heather Duerre Humann
Format Paperback
Page Count 277
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc