Following the material turn in the humanities, this book brings
perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with
children’s fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in
the 21st century. It develops the concept of entanglement, which
originated in 20th-century quantum physics but has been applied to
cultural critique, through a reading of Fantastika literature.
Surveying a wide-ranging scope of literary texts, this book covers
the gothic, fantasy, the Weird, and other forms of speculative
fiction to argue that Fantastika positions entanglement as an
ethical imperative that transforms our imaginative relationship
with materiality. In so doing, it synthesizes perspectives from a
similarly diverse range of areas, including ecology, physics,
anthropology, and literary studies, to examine the storied matter
of children’s Fantastika as ground from which we might begin to
imagine an as-yet-unrealised future that addresses the problems of
our present.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
Chloe Germaine
|
| Series editors: |
Lisa Sainsbury
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
232 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-16701-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-350-16701-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781350167018 |
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