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Death-facing ecology in contemporary British and North American environmental crisis fiction
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ISBN: 9781351396509 1351396501 135139651X 0203729862 9781138304680 9781351396516 1138304689 9780203729861 9781351396493 1351396498 9781032239293 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York Routledge

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Recent years have seen a burgeoning of novels that respond to the environmental issues we currently face. Among these, Louise Squire defines environmental crisis fiction as concerned with a range of environmental issues and with the human subject as a catalyst for these issues. She argues that this fiction is characterized by a thematic use of'death,'through which it explores a'crisis'of both environment and self. Squire refers to this emergent thematic device as'death-facing ecology'. This device enables this fiction to engage with a range of theoretical ideas and with popular notions of death and the human condition as cultural phenomena of the modern West. In doing so, this fiction invites its readers to consider how humanity might begin to respond to the crisis.


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Anthropocene fictions : the novel in a time of climate change
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ISBN: 9780813936925 0813936926 9780813936918 0813936918 0813936934 9780813936932 Year: 2015 Publisher: Charlottesville, VA : University of Virginia Press,

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Anthropocene Fictions argues that new modes of inhabiting climate are of the utmost critical and political importance, when unprecedented scientific consensus has failed to lead to action. Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism.


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Zombiescapes and phantom zones
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ISBN: 0817390235 9780817390235 9780817319267 0817319263 0817360530 Year: 2016 Publisher: Tuscaloosa


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Mutant narratives in ecological science fiction : thinking with embodied estrangement
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ISBN: 9781350296848 9781350296800 Year: 2024 Publisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic,

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Using an innovative multidisciplinary approach which is deeply invested in posthumanist thought, this book demonstrates how reading science fiction shapes the way we engage with lived environments. In dialogue with works by widely studied science fiction authors Greg Bear, N.K. Jemisin, Paolo Bacigalupi, and Jeff VanderMeer, it draws out how they function as mutant narratives. The first to systematically integrate three fields - feminist posthumanism, cognitive narratology, and science fiction studies - this book offers a complex and coherent understanding of readerly experience as material, embodied, dynamic, and imaginative.

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