Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction

Thinking with Embodied Estrangement

Kaisa Kortekallio (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-29684-8 (ISBN)

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Using an innovative multidisciplinary approach which is deeply invested in posthumanist thought, this book demonstrates how reading science fiction shapes the way we engage with lived environments. In dialogue with works by widely studied science fiction authors Greg Bear, N.K. Jemisin, Paolo Bacigalupi, and Jeff VanderMeer, it draws out how they function as mutant narratives. The first to systematically integrate three fields – feminist posthumanism, cognitive narratology, and science fiction studies – it offers a complex and coherent understanding of readerly experience as material, embodied, dynamic, and imaginative.

Covering a range of urgent topics, including climate fiction, New Weird fiction, and new phenomenologies of the body, this book is the first to demonstrate how readerly experience acts as a site for ethical and political reorientation in the time of climate change.

Kaisa Kortekallio is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Turku Institute for Advanced Sciences, University of Turku, Finland. She has published on contemporary ecological speculative fiction, New Weird fiction, more-than-human subjectivity, and narrative experientiality.

Introduction: Literary Studies in the Anthropocene
1 More-than-Human Reading and Experiential Change
2 Mutant Figures and Reading Bodies
3 Readerly Choreographies
4 Embodied Estrangement and Jeff VanderMeer’s The Southern Reach
Conclusion
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	28.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	Posthumanism in Practice
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-29684-8 / 1350296848
ISBN-13	978-1-350-29684-8 / 9781350296848
Zustand	Neuware