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Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction (Hardcover)
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Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction (Hardcover)
Series: Environmental Cultures
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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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