Worldly Spirits, Extra-Human Dimensions, and the Global Anglophone Novel
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-37385-3 (ISBN)
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Taking stock of novels published from 2018-2020 by such writers as Amitav Ghosh, André Alexis, Yangsze Choo, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Zeyn Joukhadar, and Tanya Tagaq, Thompson illuminates how these works extend an ecological call to decentre the human and align with multidimensional theories of art and literature to provide ways to read for rather than reduce the extra-human dimensions emerging in contemporary fiction.
A refreshing rejection of ecological apocalypticism, this book unsettles typical conceptualizations of both anglophone and Anthropocene literatures by invoking European art theory, philosophy, and non-Western ideas on animism and spirits to put forward perceptions of the extra-human as a form of dealing with the many uncertainties of today’s different crises.
Hilary Thompson is Associate Professor of English at Bowdoin College, USA. She is author of Novel Creatures: Animal Life and the New Millennium (2018) and has published multiple articles on Amitav Ghosh and on global anglophone literature, biopolitics, and the Anthropocene.
Introduction
Interanimisms: Spirits, Species, and Dimensions of Planet-Thinking
I: RIPPLES
Chapter 1
Spirited Creatures: The Weretigers and their Worlds in Yangsze Choo’s The Night Tiger
Chapter 2
Creaturely Dimensionism: Unbearable Worlds in Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s Call Me Zebra
II: PORTALS
Chapter 3
Provincializing Dimensionism: The Paranormal Ontario of André Alexis’s Days by Moonlight
Chapter 4
Foreseeable Futures: Avataric History in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
III: SPIRALS
Chapter 5
Expected on Earth: Distributive Redemption in Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Thirty Names of Night and Tanya Tagaq’s Split Tooth
Recalling Gaia: A Note in Ending
Bibliography
Endnotes
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 06.12.2023 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-37385-0 / 1350373850 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-37385-3 / 9781350373853 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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