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Translating Endangered Nonhuman Worlds
This chapter approaches inter-species translation through the dual disciplinary lens of world literature and Anthropocene discourse. Both fields are...
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Entangled Species/Entangled Health: The Inclusive Poetics of Juliana Spahr
Juliana Spahr promotes a trans-corporeal posthumanist ethics by composing poetry that adopts the complex patterns of nature, a poetry that models the...
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The Climate of Extinction: Resistant Multispecies Communities in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior and Richard Powers’s The Overstory
In a 2018 special report on the impacts of global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) observed that one half of local...
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Last Chance to See: Extinction in Literary Animal Studies and the Environmental Humanities
The current mass extinction crisis is one of the most urgent contexts in which the develo** critical reflection on the literary representation of...
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Playing Against Extinction: “The Dreaded Comparison” and the Distribution of the Human in Mlima’s Tale
The climate change and extinction crises are—above all—crises of values. World leaders, CEOs, and other humans in positions of power largely...
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Animal Narrators and Resonant Silences in “The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang and Sila by Chantal Bilodeau
In Wild Ones, Jon Mooallem writes that whenever he contemplated the fact that polar bears “might stop existing,” he would become “viscerally...
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1980s–2000s Texts
This chapter demonstrates the survival of each form of literary animal representation: the realistic fantasy of knowing, the speculative fantasy of...
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Coda
The Coda examines recent work from anthologies and journal issues relating to the Anthropocene. Considering both the lyric and the highly...
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A Spokesbear for Climate Crisis?: The Role of Zoos in Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Memoirs of a Polar Bear, a novel by Yoko Tawada originally published in German as Etüden im Schnee: Roman (2014) and translated into English by Susan...
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Pascale Petit: Entanglement, Animals, and the ‘Anthropocene Extinction’
Ecologists have begun to refer to ‘the Anthropocene’s biological extinction crisis’ (Cebaddos et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
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Posthumanism and Digital Gaming
While play has always constituted an important aspect of human activity, the advent of video games, in tandem with the development of computer...
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A Change of Heart: Animality, Power, and Black Posthuman Enhancement in Malorie Blackman’s Pig-Heart Boy
As cardiac xenotransplantation moves from labs into hospitals, this chapter asks what Malorie Blackman’s young adult novel Pig-Heart Boy reveals...
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Creolizing Science in Mayra Montero’s Palm of Darkness
Through a discussion of Mayra Montero’s In the Palm of Darkness, this chapter examines and challenges what Caribbean novelist Wilson Harris...
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Spenser, Marine Life, and the Metaphysics of Extinction: Overfishing and the True Monsters of the Deep
This chapter plumbs Spenser’s representations of the sea and sea-life in the context of mounting anxiety about the decline of Britain’s fisheries. It...
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Nineteenth-Century American Anti-extinction Humour: “A Polar Whale’s Appeal” as Environmentalist Animal Satire
My chapter examines the satirical aspects of “A Polar Whale’s Appeal”, an anonymous letter to the editor published in The Friend—a Honolulu newspaper...
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Motherhood Beyond Woman: I Am [a Good] Mother and Predecessors Onscreen
Whether to ensure humanity’s survival or to host other species, reproduction has been a steady pretext to (ab)use women in sci-fi. Though their...
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Conservation and the Flower Fairy Tradition in Avis Acres and Maurice Gee
Greg Garrard argues, “The shift from a human-centred to a nature-centred system of values is the core of the radicalism attributed to deep ecology”...
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Introduction
This chapter establishes the need for interdisciplinary approaches to studying animals in fiction. Advocating for closer attention to scientific and...
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Animal Mercy Release, Environmental Conservation, and the Media in Vietnam
This essay explores the intersections of environmental conservation and culture in media narratives about animal mercy release, a common practice...
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Anthropocene Poetry
This chapter examines scientific and cultural interpretations of the Anthropocene, discusses their ethical and political dimensions, and analyses...