ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 analyses The Stone Gods (2007), a contemporary environmental crisis novel by British writer, Jeanette Winterson. It considers this novel’s depiction of imageries of posthumanism, transhumanism and humanism and demonstrates the ways they interplay in the theme of ‘death-facing ecology’. Conclusions are drawn by examining and applying conceptions of the posthuman figure as discussed in the works of Karen Barad and Cary Wolfe. Overall, this chapter explores the way transhumanism appears as a form of death-denial and posthumanism as a form of death-facing, and the way the human and humanism reappear and are renegotiated, as the novel explores the possibilities for a human response in the face of the environmental crisis.
