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Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction: Environmental Cultures

Autor Sarah E. McFarland
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 feb 2021
This work analyzes 21st-century realistic speculations of human extinction: fictions that imagine future worlds without interventions of as-yet uninvented technology, interplanetary travel, or other science fiction elements that provide hope for rescue or long-term survival. Climate change fiction as a genre of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic writing usually resists facing the potentiality of human species extinction, following instead traditional generic conventions that imagine primitivist communities of human survivors with the means of escaping the consequences of global climate change. Yet amidst the ongoing sixth great extinction, works that problematize survival, provide no opportunities for social rebirth, and speculate humanity's final end may address the problem of how to reject the impulse of human exceptionalism that pervades climate change discourse and post-apocalyptic fiction. Rather than following the preferences of the genre, the ecocollapse fictions examined here manifest apocalypse where the means for a happy ending no longer exists. In these texts, diminished ecosystems, specters of cannibalism, and disintegrations of difference and othering render human self-identity as radically malleable within their confrontations with the stark materiality of all life. This book is the first in-depth exploration of contemporary fictions that imagine the imbrication of human and nonhuman within global species extinctions. It closely interrogates novels from authors like Peter Heller, Cormac McCarthy and Yann Martel that reject the impulse of human exceptionalism to demonstrate what it might be like to go extinct.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350177642
ISBN-10: 1350177644
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Environmental Cultures

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Analyzes human extinction in realistic ecocollapse fictions, arguing for recognition of a new subgenre of apocalyptic fiction

Notă biografică

Sarah E. McFarland is Professor of Literature and Theory at Northwestern State University of Louisiana, USA. She has published widely in the environmental humanities and critical animal studies, and she co-edited Animals and Agency: An Interdisciplinary Exploration (2008).

Cuprins

Acknowledgements 1 The World Unravels2 Irreducible Entanglement: "All Was Kith and Kin" in Life of Pi3 The Last Stragglers of Ecocollapse: "Diary of an Interesting Year" and The Road4 Bearing Witness: Narrating Human Extinction in The Dog Stars5 Loose EndsBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Sarah McFarland's Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Extinction is another compelling addition to [its] field. What marks this book as special is how McFarland pays close attention to the most dismal and excruciating aspects of such fictions ... McFarland's skill in guiding us through the limits of the liveable and the readable enables a reckoning with what she identifies as the undoing of "human exceptionalism" (p. 3).
This book speaks to our generation's sense of precarity, our awareness that what we do to the planet we do to ourselves as well, like few others. McFarland's deconstruction of the myth of human exceptionalism is a crucial message for our species-it is a potential lifeline during the COVID-19 pandemic.