Taking up the collective insistence on the centrality of story to extinction studies, this volume engages with what is traditionally understood as Anthropocene fiction and highlights the questions these fictions ask of extinction, while simultaneously bringing texts typically not thought of as Anthropocene fiction into fruitful discourse.
Taking up the collective insistence on the centrality of story to extinction studies, this volume engages with what is traditionally understood as Anthropocene fiction and highlights the questions these fictions ask of extinction, while simultaneously bringing texts typically not thought of as Anthropocene fiction into fruitful discourse.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jonathan Elmore is assistant professor of English at Savannah State University.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments......................................................... Introduction: The Urgency of Story During the Sixth Mass Extinction Jonathan Elmore................................................... Chapter 1: Telling Stories about Dying (Out): Thomas Pynchon's Global Novels and the Anthropocene Extinction Michael Fuchs.................................................... Chapter 2: "Life Finds a Way": Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, and Extinction Anxiety Christy Tidwell................................................... Chapter 3: "The Integrity of Nature": A Comparative Analysis of Environmental Anxieties in the Fictions of H.P. Lovecraft and Jeff VanderMeer Kristen Figgins.................................................... Chapter 4: "My heart slowly cracks": Making Kin and Living through Extinction in Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God Bridgitte Barclay................................................. Chapter 5: "You are Here": Extinction as Familial in The Broken Earth Erin DeYoung................................................... Chapter 6: The Uncanny, the Weird, and the Eerie: Hyperobjects and Anthropocenic Modalities in China Miéville's Three Moments of an Explosion Allan Rae......................................................... Chapter 7: The Tragic Comedy of Humanity: Life After Species Extinction in Éric Chevillard's Sans l'orang-outan Christina Lord.................................................... Chapter 8: Godly Mass Extinction: Robert J. Sawyer's Calculating God and Extinction's Teleologies Jenni G. Halpin.................................................. About the Contributors
Acknowledgments......................................................... Introduction: The Urgency of Story During the Sixth Mass Extinction Jonathan Elmore................................................... Chapter 1: Telling Stories about Dying (Out): Thomas Pynchon's Global Novels and the Anthropocene Extinction Michael Fuchs.................................................... Chapter 2: "Life Finds a Way": Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, and Extinction Anxiety Christy Tidwell................................................... Chapter 3: "The Integrity of Nature": A Comparative Analysis of Environmental Anxieties in the Fictions of H.P. Lovecraft and Jeff VanderMeer Kristen Figgins.................................................... Chapter 4: "My heart slowly cracks": Making Kin and Living through Extinction in Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God Bridgitte Barclay................................................. Chapter 5: "You are Here": Extinction as Familial in The Broken Earth Erin DeYoung................................................... Chapter 6: The Uncanny, the Weird, and the Eerie: Hyperobjects and Anthropocenic Modalities in China Miéville's Three Moments of an Explosion Allan Rae......................................................... Chapter 7: The Tragic Comedy of Humanity: Life After Species Extinction in Éric Chevillard's Sans l'orang-outan Christina Lord.................................................... Chapter 8: Godly Mass Extinction: Robert J. Sawyer's Calculating God and Extinction's Teleologies Jenni G. Halpin.................................................. About the Contributors
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