LEADER 05433nam 22006253 450 001 9910875587003321 005 20250905110036.0 010 $a9781040090756 010 $a1040090753 010 $a9781003345770 010 $a1003345778 035 $a(CKB)33165917300041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31554486 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31554486 035 $a(ODN)ODN0011070356 035 $a(EXLCZ)9933165917300041 100 $a20240729d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aUtopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown $eEntangled Futurities 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOxford :$cTaylor & Francis Group,$d2024. 210 4$dİ2025. 215 $a1 online resource (255 pages) 311 08$a9781032385914 311 08$a103238591X 327 $aCover -- Endorsements Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editor Bios -- Contributor Bios -- Introduction: Entangled Futurities -- Part 1 Monsters and Monstrosity -- 1 "In the Woods the Tox is Still Wild": The EcoGothic in Rory Power's Wilder Girls -- 2 The Human/Un(human): Monster, Ecophobia, and the Posthuman Horror(scape) in Dibakar Banerjee's "Monster," Ghost Stories -- 3 A Scourge Even Worse Than Disease: Richard Matheson's I Am Legend as Pandemic Political Allegory -- Part 2 Intersectional Critique -- 4 Fungal Imaginaries: The Reconfiguration of Post-Pandemic Society in Severance and The Last of Us -- 5 Five Hundred Years of Plague: Indigenous Apocalypse in Joca Reiners Terron's Death and the Meteor -- 6 Corruption and Cleansing: An Eco-Feminist Approach to the Nature/Culture Dichotomy in Naomi Novik's Uprooted -- 7 Through Currents of Contamination: The Failure of Immunizing Insularity in Sophie Mackintosh's The Water Cure -- Part 3 More-Than-Human Mutual Aid and Eco-Justice -- 8 Dystopian Prohibitions and Utopian Possibilities in Edmonton, Canada, at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 9 Affiliation as Environmental Justice in Three Climate Novels -- 10 "A vortex of Summons and Repulsion": The Productive Abject, Posthumanisms, and the Weird in Charles Burns' Black Hole -- 11 (Un)Caring Borders: More-Than-Human Solidarities in the Bialowieza Forest -- Part 4 Creative Resistance and Utopian Glimmers -- 12 "Preservation is an Action, not a State": DIY Utopian Enclaves and Ways out of Post-Pandemic Surveillance Capitalism in Sarah Pinsker's A Song for a New Day -- 13 Pandemic Dramaturgy: Co-Designing the Performance Dying Together/Futures with COVID-19 -- 14 Vitality of Nonhuman Entities: Plagues and Pandemics as Hyperobjects in Defoe, Camus, and Pamuk. 327 $a15 World-Building Enactments of the School Strike Movements during the Pandemic: Reading Youth Climate Crisis Movements through a Micro-and Nano-Utopian Lens -- Index. 330 $a"This edited collection, which is situated within the environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, brings together utopian and dystopian representations of pandemics from across literature, the arts, and social movements. Featuring analyses of literary works, TV and film, theater, politics, and activism, the chapters in this volume home in on critical topics such as posthumanism, multispecies futures, agency, political ecology, environmental justice, and Indigenous and settler-colonial environmental relations. The book asks: how do pandemics and ecological breakdown show us the ways that humans are deeply interconnected with the more-than-human world? And what might we learn from exploring those entanglements, both within creative works and in lived reality? Brazilian, Indian, Polish, and Dutch texts feature alongside classic literary works like Defoe's A Journal of a Plague Year (1722) and Matheson's I Am Legend (1954), as well as broader takes on movements like global youth climate activism. These investigations are united by their thematic interests in the future of human and nonhuman relationships in the shadow of climate emergency and increasing pandemic risk, as well as in the glimmers of utopian hope they exhibit for the creation of more just futures. This exploration of how pandemics illuminate the entangled materialities and shared vulnerabilities of all living things is an engaging and timely analysis that will appeal to environmentally minded researchers, academics, and students across various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aPandemics in the performing arts 606 $aPandemics in literature 606 $aPandemics$xSocial aspects 606 $aHuman ecology 606 $aEcocriticism 615 0$aPandemics in the performing arts. 615 0$aPandemics in literature. 615 0$aPandemics$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aHuman ecology. 615 0$aEcocriticism. 676 $a701.3 700 $aAlberro$b Heather$01756618 701 $aAtasoy$b Emrah$01756619 701 $aCastle$b Nora$01734268 701 $aFirth$b Rhiannon$01253334 701 $aScott$b Conrad$01756620 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910875587003321 996 $aUtopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown$94194026 997 $aUNINA