| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 302 pages) |
| Series |
Palgrave studies in animals and literature |
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Palgrave studies in animals and literature.
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| Contents |
Introduction Sune Borkfelt and Matthias Stephan -- Part 1: Extinction -- Sara Schotland Do Humans Dream of Disappearing Insects? -- Nathaniel Otjen The Climate of Extinction: Resistant Multispecies Communities in Barbara Kingsolvers Flight Behavior and Richard Powerss The Overstory -- Abby Schroering Playing Against Extinction: "The Dreaded Comparison" and the Distribution of the Human in Mlimas Tale -- Brianna Burke Anthropomorphization and Conjoined Extinction in "The Great Silence" by Ted Chiang and Sila by Chantal Bilodeau -- Part 2: Climate Crisis -- Emily McAvan "Undoing Creation in the Climate Change Apocalypse: Animality and Evolution in Louise Erdrichs Future Home of the Living God" -- Alex Lockwood Hopping, crawling, hiding: creatural movements on the path to climate emergency -- Markku Lehtimaki Polar Bears and Butterflies: Allegory, Science, and Embodiment in Climate Change Fiction -- Elana Santana Bodies Tell Stories: Race, Species, and Climate Change in Jesmyn Wards novel, Salvage the Bones -- Anastassiya Adrianova A Spokesbear for Climate Crisis? The Role of Zoos in Yoko Tawadas Memoirs of a Polar Bear -- Part 3: Posthuman -- Dolly Jrgensen Resurrecting Species through Robotics: Animal Extinction and Deextinction in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Aaron Van Neste Alien Oceans as Climate Salvation: Finding Hope in the Deep Blue Unknown -- Daniel Bedggood Ecocrises and Posthuman-Animal Futures in Bacigalupis The Windup Girl and Schoens Barsk |
| Summary |
Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis connects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation, and features considerations of new interventions by literature in relation to these pressing questions and debates. This volume informs academic debates in terms of how nonhuman animals figure in our cultural imagination of topics such as climate change, extinction, animal otherness, the posthuman, and environmental crises. Using a diverse set of methodologies, each chapter presents relevant cases which discuss the various aspects of these interstices. This volume is an intersection between literary animal studies and climate fiction intended as an interdisciplinary intervention that speaks to the global climate debate and is thus relevant across the environmental humanities. Sune Borkfelt lectures at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is author of Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity (2022). Matthias Stephan is associate professor at Aarhus University, coordinator of the Centre for Studies of Otherness, author of Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century, and general editor of Otherness: Essays and Studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 16, 2022) |
| Subject |
Ecofiction -- History and criticism
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Animals in literature.
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Environmental literature -- History and criticism
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Animals in literature
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Ecofiction
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Environmental literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Borkfelt, Sune, editor.
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Stephan, Matthias, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783031110207 |
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303111020X |
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