Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction
Thinking with Embodied Estrangement
Series: Posthumanism in Practice;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 26 June 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350296800
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 232x154x12 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English 742
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Short description:
Demonstrating how reading science fiction shapes the way we engage with lived environments, this book also explores the emergence of more-than-human modes of embodiment in reading contemporary ecological science fiction.
MoreLong description:
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 - it offers a complex and coherent understanding of readerly experience as material, embodied, dynamic, and imaginative.
Covering a range of urgent topics, including climate fiction, New Weird fiction, and new phenomenologies of the body, this book is the first to demonstrate how readerly experience acts as a site for ethical and political reorientation in the time of climate change.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Literary Studies in the Anthropocene
1 More-than-Human Reading and Experiential Change
2 Mutant Figures and Reading Bodies
3 Readerly Choreographies
4 Embodied Estrangement and Jeff VanderMeer's The Southern Reach
Conclusion
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