Vegetarianism and Science Fiction
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-38346-5 (ISBN)
lt;b>Joshua Bulleid completed his PhD in literary studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to contributing chapters on vegetarianism and utopia to the Palgrave Macmillan collection Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction (2020) and The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies (2022), his articles on vegetarianism and animal ethics have appeared in the field-defining science fiction journals Foundation and Science Fiction Studies. He also hosts the Terry Pratchett podcast Unseen Academicals.
1 The Speculative Politics of Meat: Utopia, Carnism, and Critical Animal Studies.- Utopia and Science Fiction.- Carnism and Speciesism.- Vegetarianism and Veganism.- Critical Animal Studies.- Food Studies and Science Fiction.- Chapter Breakdown.- References.- 2 Feed My Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Romantic Vegetarian Precedent.- Percy Shelley's Vegetarian Vindication.- Frankenstein.- Frankenstein's Fall.- Child of Nature.- The Creature's Fall.- Children of Cain.- Ecocritical Inclinations.- The Last Man and Others.- Conclusion.- References.- 3 You Are What You Eat: Bestiality and Other "Carnal Cravings" in the Works of H. G. Wells.- Darwinism.- The Time Machine.- The Island of Doctor Moreau.- The War of the Worlds.- Later Scientific Romances and Mainstream Novels.- Modern Utopias.- Conclusion.- References.- 4 My God, It's Full of Starch! Arthur C. Clarke, Alternative Meat, and the Hunting Hypothesis.- Alternative Meat and the Dystopian Tradition.- Space Exploration and Environmental Sustainability.- Ethical Endorsements and Buddhist Influences.- Space Odyssey Series and the Hunting Hypothesis.- Conclusion.- References.- 5 Should Androids Eat Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick, Interspecies Empathy, and Animal Liberation.- Early Empathetic Experiences.- Early Short Stories and Novels.- Dr Bloodmoney.- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.- Blade Runner.- Later Theological Turn.- Conclusion.- References.- 6 The Critical Carnist Shift: Marge Piercy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ernest Callenbach, Octavia E. Butler and the Critical Utopian Period.- The Critical Utopian Canon.- Piercy's Primitivist and Post-Catastrophic Carnisms.- Coming Home to Carnism in Le Guin.- Callenbach's Carnist Ecotopia(s).- Octavia E. Butler.- Patternist.- Xenogenesis.- Later Parables.- Conclusion.- References.- 7 Where's the Beef? Kim Stanley Robinson's Carnist Climate Change Catastrophes.- Future Primitive.- Three Californias.- Mars Trilogy and Other Space Colonisation Novels.- Science in the Capital.- Climate Policy.- Buddhism.- Nineteenth-Century Influences.- Nonhuman Subjectivity.- (Erasure of) Nonhuman Sympathy.- The Ministry for the Future.- Conclusion.- References.- 8 That Way Maddness Lies: Returning to Carnism in Margaret Atwood's Science Fiction.- Survivalism and Realist Fiction.- The Handmaids' Tales.- The Blind Assassin and Later Realist Fiction.- The MaddAddam Trilogy.- Children of "Nature".- Inner Animality.- Alternative Meats.- Sexual Politics.- Interspecies Empathy and Animal Activism.- Neocarnist Environmentalism.- Conclusion.- References.- 9 The Last Word in Gastronomy? Veganism, Ecocriticism, Pandemic Science Fiction and the Future.- Veganism.- Climate Fiction and Ecocriticism.- Pandemic Science Fiction.- Looking Forward.- References.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.10.2023 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature |
| Zusatzinfo | XIV, 336 p. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 553 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft |
| Schlagworte | Literature and Animal Studies • literature and the environment • Science Fiction • utopian studies • veganism • Vegetarianism |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-38346-X / 303138346X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-38346-5 / 9783031383465 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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