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Book SynopsisPart I: Post Humanism.- Chapter 1: Murderbot and the Uncanny: The Familiar Unfamiliarity of Non-Human Humanity by Kellyn Stinnett.- Chapter 2: Machines like us: an overview of A.I. and human nature by Tiziana Lentini.- Part II: Uncanny Bodies and the Human.- Chapter 3: Looking at Iconography of Ophelia to Understand the Uncanny in the Beautiful Dead Girl Trope by Danielle Byington.- Chapter 4: Yoko Tawada's The Emissary: An Aesthetic Leap Towards a Queer and Uncanny Ecology by Valentina Rosales.- Chapter 5: Documenting pain through love. Tomoko and Mother in the Bath by Carlotta Berti.- Chapter 6: Dostoevsky's Uncanny' Disease by Byron Byrne Taylor.- Part III: Visual Culture.- Chapter 7: Blindspot and Avengers Infinity War Translating Uncanny Geographies in Television and Film: Repetition, Doubling, and The Twin Towers by Loraine Haywood.- Chapter 8: Uncanny synaesthesia(s): the interplay between forms, sounds, and colours in Samuel Beckett's Play and Wassily Kandinsky's In Grey by Abdellatif Ben Halima.- Chapter 09: Thin Places, Other Worlds and Visual Layering in Cinema by Chris Gerrard.- Chapter 10: Fluidity in Stillness: Jean Epstein's Uncanny Photogénie' and the Found Footage Film by Anna Louise Wiegenstein.- Chapter 11: Uncanny Objects: Lacan, Heidegger, and Return of the Gaze by Matilda Cullen and Cameron More.- Part IV: Spatiality.- Chapter 12: The Contemporary Uncanny after Brexit: Literary Disruptions of the Self by Mandy Beck.- Chapter 13: The Uncanny, Unsurmountable Beliefs and Postrevolutionary Mexico in Juan Bustillo Oro's Dos monjes by Kevin Anzzolin.- Part V: The Uncanny' Trope.- Chapter 14: Portrait of the Uncanny in Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore by Jamie Johnson.- Chapter 15: Haruki Murakami's use of the Uncanny in After Dark (2004): the corruption of the home space and the subjugation of the female characters by Gemma Scammell.- Part VI: The Self and the Other: Uncanny Limits.- Chapter 16: Love, Death and Femme Fatales in Keats' Works by Federica Montella.- Chapter 17: The Mimic and the Uncanny: Reading Waste in English, August by Sonakshi Srivastava.
