The The Worldwide ‘Cocoon’: ‘Alt[C]Lit’ Narratives and Posthuman (Inter)Connectivity

Vanesa Menéndez Cuesta

doi:10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.202510975

Authors

Vanesa Menéndez Cuesta Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.202510975

Keywords:

interface, interconnectivity, gender studies, posthumanism, North American poetry

Abstract

This article explores notions of womanhood and youth through new paradigms that stimulate the proliferation of novel posthuman identities and subjectivities. The Internet becomes the juncture where these material and virtual realities exist. Understanding communication as a continual flux of digital data that constantly crosses the boundaries in and out of the World Wide Web, I set out to examine how contemporary writing and literary forms, in particular the poetry of ‘Alt [C]Lit’ authors such as Ana Carrete, Sarah Jean Alexander and Mira Gonzalez, are redefined by mediated new technologies, such as social media, and how this influence also converges with making visible new epistemologies about identity, gender and human relations nowadays.

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