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Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture

Autor Tom Idema
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 noi 2018
Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism develops the theoretical perspective of environmental posthumanism through analyses of acclaimed science fiction novels by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Jeff VanderMeer, in which the human species suddenly transforms in response to new or changing environments. Narrating dramatic ecological events of human-to-nonhuman encounter, invasion, and transmutation, these novels allow the reader to understand the planet as an unstable stage for evolution and the human body as a home for bacteria and viruses. Idema argues that by drawing tension from biological theories of interaction and emergence (e.g. symbiogenesis, epigenetics), these works unsettle conventional relations among characters, technologies, story-worlds, and emplotment, refiguring the psychosocial work of the novel as always already biophysical. Problematizing a desire to compartmentalize and control life as the property of human subjects, these novels imagine life as an environmentally mediated, staged event that enlists human and nonhuman actors. Idema demonstrates how literary narratives of transmutation render biological lessons of environmental instability and ecological interdependence both meaningful and urgent—a vital task in a time of mass extinction, hyperpollution, and climate change. This volume is an important intervention for scholars of the environmental humanities, posthumanism, literature and science, and science and technology studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415788229
ISBN-10: 0415788226
Pagini: 186
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Introduction: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy
2. Infection: Greg Bear’s Darwin’s Radio
3. Disintegration: Jeff Vandermeer’s The Southern Reach
4. Amalgamation: Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood
Coda: Bringing Literature to Life Bibliography
Index

Notă biografică

Tom Idema is a lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, working at the intersections of literary studies, environmental humanities, and science and technology studies. His work has appeared in edited volumes and journals including Frame, Configurations, Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, Biosocieties, and Ecozon@.

Recenzii

"Stages of Transmutation is an example of how interdisciplinarity can instead enrich thought, an increasingly important exercise in light of the social, political, ethical, and environmental challenges we face." - Shelby Brewster, Michigan State University

Descriere

This book develops the concept of environmental posthumanism through analyses of acclaimed science fiction novels by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler, Philip K. Dick, and Kim Stanley Robinson, in which the human species suddenly transforms in response to new or changing environments.