Beschreibung
Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction is one of the first works to focus specifically on fictions engagements with human driven extinction. Drawing together a diverse group of scholars and approaches, this volume pairs established voices in the field with emerging scholars and traditionally recognizedclimate fiction ('cli-fi') with texts and media typically not associated with Anthropocene fictions. The result is a volume that both engages with and furthers existing work on Anthropocene fiction as well as laying groundwork for the budding subfield of extinction fiction. This volume takes up the collective insistence on the centrality of story to extinction studies. In various and disparate ways, each chapter engages with the stories we tell about extinction, about the extinction of animal and plant life, and about the extinction of human life itself. Answering the call to action of extinction studies, these chapters explore what kinds of humanity caused this event and what kinds may live through it; what cultural assumptions and values led to this event and which ones could lead out of it; what relationships between human life and this planet allowed the sixth mass extinction and what alternative relationships could be possible.
Autorenportrait
Jonathan Elmoreis assistant professor of English at Savannah State University.
Inhalt
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Urgency of Story During the Sixth Mass ExtinctionJonathan ElmoreChapter 1:Telling Stories about Dying (Out): Thomas Pynchons Global Novels and theAnthropocene ExtinctionMichael Fuchs.Chapter 2: Life Finds a Way:Jurassic Park,Jurassic World, and Extinction AnxietyChristy TidwellChapter 3: "The Integrity of Nature: A Comparative Analysis of Environmental Anxieties in theFictions of H.P. Lovecraft and Jeff VanderMeerKristen Figgins.Chapter 4: My heart slowly cracks: Making Kin and Living through Extinction in ErdrichsFuture Home of the Living GodBridgitte Barclay.Chapter 5: You are Here: Extinction as Familial inThe Broken EarthErin DeYoungChapter 6: The Uncanny, the Weird, and the Eerie: Hyperobjects and Anthropocenic Modalitiesin China MiévillesThree Moments of an ExplosionAllan RaeChapter 7: The Tragic Comedy of Humanity: Life After Species Extinction in Éric ChevillardsSanslorang-outanChristina Lord.Chapter 8: Godly Mass Extinction: Robert J. SawyersCalculating God and ExtinctionsTeleologiesJenni G. Halpin..About the Contributors
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