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Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media de Dr Marek Oziewicz

Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media

Editat de Dr Marek Oziewicz, Professor Brian Attebery, Dr Tereza Dedinová
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2022
The first study to look at the intersection of the discourse of the Anthropocene within the two highly influential storytelling modes of fantasy and myth, this book shows the need for stories that articulate visions of a biocentric, ecological civilization. Fantasy and myth have long been humanity's most advanced technologies for collective dreaming. Today they are helping us adopt a biocentric lens, re-kin us with other forms of life, and assist us in the transition to an ecological civilization. Deliberately moving away from dystopian narratives toward anticipatory imaginations of sustainable futures, this volume blends chapters by top scholars in the fields of fantasy, myth, and Young Adult literature with personal reflections by award-winning authors and illustrators of books for young audiences, including Shaun Tan, Jane Yolen, Katherine Applegate and Joseph Bruchac. Chapters cover the works of major fantasy authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Terry Prachett, J. K. Rowling, China Miéville, Barbara Henderson, Jeanette Winterson, John Crowley, Richard Powers, George R. R. Martin and Kim Stanley Robinson. They range through narratives set in the UK, USA, Nigeria, Ghana, Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia. Across the chapters, fantasy and myth are framed as spaces where visions of sustainable futures can be designed with most detail and nuance. Rather than merely criticizing the ecocidal status quo, the book asks how mythic narratives and fantastic stories can mobilize resistance around ideas necessary for the emergence of an ecological civilization.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350204164
ISBN-10: 1350204161
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 3 bw illus and 8 colour illus (plate section)
Dimensiuni: 169 x 244 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Covers works of major popular fantasy writers such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Terry Prachett, J. K. Rowling, China Mieville, Barbara Henderson, Jeanette Winterson, John Crowly, Broke Bolander, Richard Powers, George R. R. Martin and Kim Stanley Robinson, across the mediums of literature, media, film and digital culture.

Notă biografică

Marek Oziewicz is Professor of Literacy Education and Sidney and Marguerite Henry Professor of Children's and Young Adult Literature at the College of Education and Human Development, Universty of Minnesota - Twin Cities, USA. He is the author of One Earth, One People (2008), which won the 2010 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies; Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction (2015); and 5 co-edited collections, and over 50 articles and book chapters. Brian Attebery is Professor of English at Idaho State University, USA and Editor or the Journal of the Fantastic in Art. His publications include Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth (2019) and Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home (2019). In 2019 he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Fantasy at the University of Glasgow. Tereza Dedinová is Assistant Professor in the Department of Czech Literature, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. She has published on theory of the fantastic from the cognitive perspective, on the representation of the actual world in fantasy, and on the Czech fantastika.

Cuprins

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of Academic ContributorsList of ArtistsIntroduction: The choice we have in the stories we tell Marek Oziewicz, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA Part I. Trouble in the AirAnthropos and the Air Brian Attebery, Idaho State University, USA From the Third Age to the Fifth Season: confronting the Anthropocene through fantasy Brian AtteberyWho knows where the time goes? Nisi Shawl, author, editor and journalistPlaying with the trouble: children and the Anthropocene in Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch series Lindsay Burton,University of Cambridge, UKRewrite Katherine Applegate, authorStaying with the singularity: nonhuman narrators and more-than-human mythologies Alexander Popov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", BulgariaThe eye of the story Joseph Bruchac / Nokidahozid, authorFantasy for the Anthropocene: on the ecocidal unconscious, planetarianism, and imagination of biocentric futures Marek OziewiczAstroNuts, the origin story Jon Scieszka, author Part II. Dreaming the Earth Anthropos and the Earth Brian Attebery Embodying the permaculture story: Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series Tereza Dedinová, Masaryk University, Czechia Where is the place for seagrass and weevils in children's literature? Eliot Schrefer, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USAArboreal magic and kinship in the Chthulucene: Margaret Mahy's trees Melanie DuckworthJust imagine Barbara Henderson, authorFrom portable landscapes to themed thrill rides: Rowling's heterotopic hopescapes Stephanie Weaver, Savannah College of Art and Design, USADoes fantasy literature have a place in the climate change crisis? Craig Russell, USA"The earth is my home too, can't I help protect it?": Planetary thinking, queer identities and environmentalism in The Legend of Korra, She-Ra and Steven Universe Aneesh Barai, University of Sheffield, UKCelebrations of resilience Elin Kelsey, author and scholar Part III: Visions in the WaterAnthropos and the Ocean Brian Attebery Kim Stanley Robinson's case for hope in New York 2140 John Rieder, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USAMyth makes us see Adam Gidwitz, authorSleeping with the fishmen: reimagining the Anthropocene through oceanic-chthonic kinships Prema Arasu, University of Western Australia, Australia and Drew Thornton, Curtin University, USAFish Girl's dilemma Donna Jo Napoli, authorFrom culture hero to emissions zero: critiquing Maui's extractivist mindset in Disney's Moana Christopher D. Foley, University of Southern Mississippi, USAFinding balance and hope in the Indigenous past David Bowles, authorReimagining youth relations with Moananuiakea (The large, expansive ocean): contemporary Niuhi Mo'olelo (man-eating shark stories) and environmental activism Caryn Kunz Lesuma, Brigham Young University, USAThe future that has yet to be imagined Shaun Tan, artist writer and film maker Part IV: Playing with Fire Anthropos and the Fire Brian Attebery Convert or kill: disanthropocentric systems and religious myth in Jemisin's Broken Earth Derek J. Thiess, University of North Georgia, USAReimaging the upright ape Jane Yolen, authorMyths of (un)creation: narrative strategies for confronting the Anthropocene Jacob Burg, Boston University, USA The stepping stone, the Boulder, and the Star: a fable for the Anthropocene Grace L. Dillon, Portland State University, USAOn monsters and other matters of housekeeping:reading Jeff VanderMeer with Donna Haraway and Ursula K. Le Guin Kim Hendrickx, University of Leuven, BelgiumThe seriousness of writing funny Molly B. Burnham, authorLiteralizing hyperobjects: on (mis)representing global warming in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones Markus Laukkanen, Tampere University, Finland Index

Recenzii

Mind opening.
The book's profusion of subjects and clarity of language will make this book compelling reading for scholars of narrative genre while remaining accessible to undergraduate readers.
The urgings in Fantasy and Myth should be heeded. They may go far to help persuade people that we do not have to live in a dystopian world; that we cannot focus solely on end-of-the-world stories but on "how can we work together to change the world" stories
Generally speaking, so-called fantasy and mythic literature tend to be regarded as enjoyable and yet too unrealistic to enable us to grasp the causes of the real dangers threatening our complex civilized world. This assumption is misleading if not discouraging, for as the numerous essays by notable scholars and artists in Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene demonstrate, fantasy and myth play an important role in helping us deal with the doom and gloom of climate change. Moreover, they provide extraordinary counter narratives that can help us reshape the world. This collection of essays is a wonderful breath of fresh optimistic air and reveals how the anticipatory imagination in contemporary myths and fantasy can help us resist the current ecological dilemma in which we find ourselves.