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Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction is one of the first works to
focus specifically on fiction's engagements with human driven
extinction. Drawing together a diverse group of scholars and
approaches, this volume pairs established voices in the field with
emerging scholars and traditionally recognized cli-fi with texts
and media typically not associated with Anthropocene fictions. The
result is a volume that both engages with and furthers existing
work on Anthropocene fiction as well as laying groundwork for the
budding subfield of extinction fiction. This volume takes up the
collective insistence on the centrality of story to extinction
studies. In various and disparate ways, each chapter engages with
the stories we tell about extinction, about the extinction of
animal and plant life, and about the extinction of human life
itself. Answering the call to action of extinction studies, these
chapters explore what kinds of humanity caused this event and what
kinds may live through it; what cultural assumptions and values led
to this event and which ones could lead out of it; what
relationships between human life and this planet allowed the sixth
mass extinction and what alternative relationships could be
possible.
Gender and Environment in Science Fiction focuses on the variety of
ways that gender and "nature" interact in science fiction films and
fictions, exploring questions of different realities and posing new
ones. Science fiction asks questions to propose other ways of
living; it asks what if, and that question is the basis for
alternative narratives of ourselves and the world we are a part of.
What if humans could terraform planets? What if we could create
human-nonhuman hybrids? What if artificial intelligence gains
consciousness? What if we could realize kinship with other species
through heightened empathy or traumatic experiences? What if we
imagine a world without oil? The texts analyzed in this book ask
these questions and others, exploring how humans and nonhumans are
connected; how nonhuman biologies can offer diverse ways to think
about human sex, gender, and sexual orientation; and how
interpretive strategies can subvert the messages of older films and
written texts.
Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction is one of the first works to
focus specifically on fiction's engagements with human driven
extinction. Drawing together a diverse group of scholars and
approaches, this volume pairs established voices in the field with
emerging scholars and traditionally recognized climate fiction
('cli-fi') with texts and media typically not associated with
Anthropocene fictions. The result is a volume that both engages
with and furthers existing work on Anthropocene fiction as well as
laying groundwork for the budding subfield of extinction fiction.
This volume takes up the collective insistence on the centrality of
story to extinction studies. In various and disparate ways, each
chapter engages with the stories we tell about extinction, about
the extinction of animal and plant life, and about the extinction
of human life itself. Answering the call to action of extinction
studies, these chapters explore what kinds of humanity caused this
event and what kinds may live through it; what cultural assumptions
and values led to this event and which ones could lead out of it;
what relationships between human life and this planet allowed the
sixth mass extinction and what alternative relationships could be
possible.
Gender and Environment in Science Fiction focuses on the variety of
ways that gender and "nature" interact in science fiction films and
fictions, exploring questions of different realities and posing new
ones. Science fiction asks questions to propose other ways of
living. It asks what if, and that question is the basis for
alternative narratives of ourselves and the world we are a part of.
What if humans could terraform planets? What if we could create
human-nonhuman hybrids? What if artificial intelligence gains
consciousness? What if we could realize kinship with other species
through heightened empathy or traumatic experiences? What if we
imagine a world without oil? How are race, gender, and nature
interrelated? The texts analyzed in this book ask these questions
and others, exploring how humans and nonhumans are connected; how
nonhuman biologies can offer diverse ways to think about human sex,
gender, and sexual orientation; and how interpretive strategies can
subvert the messages of older films and written texts.
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