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