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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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 Mié ville's Three Moments of an Explosion
Allan Rae. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chapter 7: The Tragi-Comedy of Life: A Posthumanist Reading of Species Extinction in
É ric 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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