New Weird Fiction and the Anthropocene [electronic resource] : Jeff VanderMeer and Ecological Awareness / by Trang Dang.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783031924941
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
EK/4893
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2025.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
Fiziksel Niteleme
X, 169 p. online resource.
İçindekiler Notu
1. Introduction: Framing Exploratory Care -- 2. Violence Starts at Home: The Southern Reach and the Company -- 3. We Have Been Living in the Age of Hyperobjects: Area X and the City -- 4. There are Holes in the Mesh of Life: The Biologist and Rachel -- 5. Reality is Always Already Weird: The Crawler and Borne -- 6. Conclusion: Embracing Exploratory Care.
Özet, vb.
This book explores the development of ecological awareness in Jeff VanderMeer's New Weird novels, focusing specifically on the Southern Reach (2014-2024) and Borne (2017-2019) series. Examining the New Weird genre as an understudied part of climate fiction, the chapters investigate how these texts' language, content, and form develop unique and fascinating ways in which one can think and live more ecologically. As the first book-length study on VanderMeer's work to contextualize his novels through object-oriented ontology (OOO), an emerging branch of speculative philosophy that investigates how things exist, this work enables a uniquely experimental reading of VanderMeer: one that accentuates how his work unsettles what is perceived as normal and exposes the bounds of human reasoning, as well as how we understand ourselves and our relationships with nonhumans. Dang also engages with interdisciplinarity, situating VanderMeer's work within cultural discourse around the Anthropocene, environmental anthropology, prehistoric archeology, evolutionary biology, and Indigenous studies. Trang Dang is Workforce Skills and Inclusion Executive at the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management, UK. She received her PhD in Arts and Humanities from Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Konu
Ecocriticism.
Philosophy.
Fiction.
Literature __ Philosophy.
Human ecology __ Study and teaching.
Evolution (Biology).
Ecocriticism.
Philosophy.
Fiction Literature.
Literary Theory.
Environmental Studies.
Evolutionary Biology.