This book explores the interconnectedness of the cultural zeitgeists around the anthropocene and the undead showing how the latter reveals increasing cultural anxieties over who and what constitutes humanity in the twenty-first century and whether it has a place in any possible post-Anthropocene futures.
This book explores the interconnectedness of the cultural zeitgeists around the anthropocene and the undead showing how the latter reveals increasing cultural anxieties over who and what constitutes humanity in the twenty-first century and whether it has a place in any possible post-Anthropocene futures.
Acknowledgments Introduction Simon Bacon Part I: Undead Identity in the Anthropocene Chapter 1: (Un)Death of the Father: Self-Sacrificing Paternity in Modern Zombie Narratives Kyle William Bishop Chapter 2: Undeath, Theatricality, and the EcoGothic in DC Moore's Common (2017) Gheorghe Williams Chapter 3: Maggie in the Necrocene Johan Höglund Part II: Undead Spaces and "Zones" of the Anthropocene Chapter 4: The Uncanny Valley of the Anthropocene: Short Stories About the Undead Under the Brightest of Lights Nils Bubandt Chapter 5: Mutants and Tourists: Horror Film, Sacrifice Zones, and Chernobyl Diaries (2012) Steffen Hantke Chapter 6: A Panic on the 4th of July: Municipal Malfeasance, Mutation and Monstrosity in Barry Levinson's The Bay (2012) Rebecca Stone Gordon Part III: The Anthropocene and the End of "Time" Chapter 7: "Dying All the Time": The Future as the Extended Present and the Zombification of History in the Anthropocene Elana Gomel Chapter 8: Avenging the Anthropocene: Returning the Dead to Life while Destroying the Planet in The Avengers Films Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. Chapter 9: "To Remember Forever to Forget": Into Eternity and the Anti-Anthropocene Kristopher Woofter and Mikaela Bobiy Part IV: The Disantnropocene: Is Not All About Us Chapter 10: "You're Next!": The Enemy Within and the End of the Anthropocene as Seen in Adaptions Of "Who Goes There?" And The Body Snatchers Andrew Wilson Chapter 11: Non-Consensual Eco-sex: A Guided Meditation to the Permeable Membrane Sarah Lewison Chapter 12: Back from the Dead: Tailings Ponds in the Albertan Oil Sands Mining Operations Aaron Bradshaw Part V: The Post-Anthropocene, the Symbiocene and Undead Futures Chapter 13: Post-Anthropocenic Undying Futures: The Ecocritical Dystopian Posthuman in Lai's The Tiger Flu and Bacigalupi's "The People of Sand and Slag" Conrad Scott Chapter 14: "Cause tonight is the night/When two become one": Stranger Things, Parasitism, Assimilation and the Abject Daisy Butcher Chapter 15: After the End: The Postanthropocene Future of Endzeit Lars Schmeink About the Contributors
Acknowledgments Introduction Simon Bacon Part I: Undead Identity in the Anthropocene Chapter 1: (Un)Death of the Father: Self-Sacrificing Paternity in Modern Zombie Narratives Kyle William Bishop Chapter 2: Undeath, Theatricality, and the EcoGothic in DC Moore's Common (2017) Gheorghe Williams Chapter 3: Maggie in the Necrocene Johan Höglund Part II: Undead Spaces and "Zones" of the Anthropocene Chapter 4: The Uncanny Valley of the Anthropocene: Short Stories About the Undead Under the Brightest of Lights Nils Bubandt Chapter 5: Mutants and Tourists: Horror Film, Sacrifice Zones, and Chernobyl Diaries (2012) Steffen Hantke Chapter 6: A Panic on the 4th of July: Municipal Malfeasance, Mutation and Monstrosity in Barry Levinson's The Bay (2012) Rebecca Stone Gordon Part III: The Anthropocene and the End of "Time" Chapter 7: "Dying All the Time": The Future as the Extended Present and the Zombification of History in the Anthropocene Elana Gomel Chapter 8: Avenging the Anthropocene: Returning the Dead to Life while Destroying the Planet in The Avengers Films Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. Chapter 9: "To Remember Forever to Forget": Into Eternity and the Anti-Anthropocene Kristopher Woofter and Mikaela Bobiy Part IV: The Disantnropocene: Is Not All About Us Chapter 10: "You're Next!": The Enemy Within and the End of the Anthropocene as Seen in Adaptions Of "Who Goes There?" And The Body Snatchers Andrew Wilson Chapter 11: Non-Consensual Eco-sex: A Guided Meditation to the Permeable Membrane Sarah Lewison Chapter 12: Back from the Dead: Tailings Ponds in the Albertan Oil Sands Mining Operations Aaron Bradshaw Part V: The Post-Anthropocene, the Symbiocene and Undead Futures Chapter 13: Post-Anthropocenic Undying Futures: The Ecocritical Dystopian Posthuman in Lai's The Tiger Flu and Bacigalupi's "The People of Sand and Slag" Conrad Scott Chapter 14: "Cause tonight is the night/When two become one": Stranger Things, Parasitism, Assimilation and the Abject Daisy Butcher Chapter 15: After the End: The Postanthropocene Future of Endzeit Lars Schmeink About the Contributors
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