Are Biocultural Creatures Posthistorical Agents?

With an eye toward the book's potential contributions to the fields of critical race, postcolonial environmental, and science and technology studies, this essay, first, sketches the salient contributions of Samantha Frost's Biocultural Creatures: Toward A New Theory of the Human. Second, it queries how Frost's map of biological processes intersects with questions of historical agency raised in Chang Rae Lee's novel, On Such a Full Sea. The novel's engagements with histories of race, class, and gender, and with the redrawing of creaturely agency in relation to environment proves a productive extension of Frost's theory.