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Animals and Science Fiction / / edited by Nora Castle, Giulia Champion
| Animals and Science Fiction / / edited by Nora Castle, Giulia Champion |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 pages) |
| Disciplina | 050 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Fiction
Literature, Modern - 20th century Literature, Modern - 21st century Literature - Philosophy Popular culture Human ecology - History Philosophy Postcolonialism Fiction Literature Contemporary Literature Literary Theory Popular Culture Environmental History Postcolonial Philosophy |
| ISBN |
9783031416958
3031416953 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. “Introduction: Reading the Speculative Animal” -- Chapter 2. From Animal Alterity to Animal Studies and SF Today: A Conversation with Sherryl Vint -- Chapter 3. “Safe in each other’s scaly arms”: Solace, Oddkinship, and the Third Position in African Speculative Texts -- Chapter 4. Playing the Animal: Imagining the Nonhuman Animal in 2-Dimensional Action and Adventure Games -- Chapter 5. Philip K. Dick’s Dr. Bloodmoney and the Species Politics of Risk -- Chapter 6. Listening to Nonhuman Animals in Science Fiction Film: Establishing Empathy through Dinosaur Voices in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom -- Chapter 7. “Muzzle for the Queen”: Settler-Nonhuman Entanglements in Australian Speculative Ecofiction -- Chapter 8. Reading the Speaking Animal: Biotechnology and Animal “Uplift” in Adam Roberts’s Bête -- Chapter 9. Spacefaring Animals and Their Humans: A Study in Extraction, Exploitation, and Co-Evolution -- Chapter 10. To “Jump” into an Animal’s Body: Empathy, Care, and ResExtendas in Emma Geen’s The Many Selves of Katherine North -- Chapter 11. “alien guest, courting the goodwill of a demonic microbe”: Living Poetry, NHAs and “Aliens Among Us” in Christian Bök’s The Xenotext: Book 1 -- Chapter 12. Disemboweling the Hyperreal in Bong Joon-ho’s Okja -- Chapter 13. A Change of Heart: Animality, Power, and Black Posthuman Enhancement in Malorie Blackman’s Pig-Heart Boy -- Chapter 14. Africanfuturist Assemblages of the Undersea in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon -- Chapter 15. To Build a World: The Return of Biota in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle -- Chapter 16. A Multispecies Right to the City? Reimagining the Speculative Narratives of Urban Sustainability -- Chapter 17. Divination with Digital Animals: Sci-fi Realism in Jia Zhangke’s Tian Zhuding (A Touch of Sin) -- Chapter 18. “The Face of Extinction”: On Haunted Futures with Machine Animals -- Chapter 19. Mesozoic Miscegenation: Erotic Fiction’s Resurrection of Dinosaurs -- Chapter 20. A “speculation built on fact”: On Dougal Dixon’s Zoology of the Future. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910845477703321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown : Entangled Futurities
| Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown : Entangled Futurities |
| Autore | Alberro Heather |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
| Disciplina | 701.3 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AtasoyEmrah
CastleNora FirthRhiannon ScottConrad |
| Soggetto topico |
Pandemics in the performing arts
Pandemics in literature Pandemics - Social aspects Human ecology Ecocriticism |
| ISBN |
9781040090756
1040090753 9781003345770 1003345778 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- 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.
15 World-Building Enactments of the School Strike Movements during the Pandemic: Reading Youth Climate Crisis Movements through a Micro-and Nano-Utopian Lens -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910875587003321 |
Alberro Heather
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| Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2024 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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