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024 7 $a10.5040/9781350177673$2doi
035 $a(OCoLC)1238133599
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cCaBNVSL$dCaBNVSL
050 00 $aPS374.D96
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100 1 $aMcFarland, Sarah E.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aEcocollapse fiction and cultures of human extinction /$cSarah E. McFarland.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aLondon ;$bBloomsbury Academic,$c2020.
264 2 $a[London, England] :$bBloomsbury Publishing,$c2020
300 $a1 online resource (168 pages).
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $acomputer$2rdamedia
338 $aonline resource$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aEnvironmental cultures
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe world unravels -- Irreducible entanglement : "all was kith and kin" in Life of pi -- The last stragglers of ecocollapse : "Diary of an interesting year" and The road -- Bearing witness : narrating human extinction in The dog stars -- Loose ends.
506 $aAbstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.
520 $a"This work analyzes 21st-century realistic speculations of human extinction: fictions that imagine future worlds without interventions of as-yet uninvented technology, interplanetary travel, or other science fiction elements that provide hope for rescue or long-term survival. Climate change fiction as a genre of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic writing usually resists facing the potentiality of human species extinction, following instead traditional generic conventions that imagine primitivist communities of human survivors with the means of escaping the consequences of global climate change. Yet amidst the ongoing sixth great extinction, works that problematize survival, provide no opportunities for social rebirth, and speculate humanity's final end may address the problem of how to reject the impulse of human exceptionalism that pervades climate change discourse and post-apocalyptic fiction. Rather than following the preferences of the genre, the ecocollapse fictions examined here manifest apocalypse where the means for a happy ending no longer exists. In these texts, diminished ecosystems, specters of cannibalism, and disintegrations of difference and othering render human self-identity as radically malleable within their confrontations with the stark materiality of all life. This book is the first in-depth exploration of contemporary fictions that imagine the imbrication of human and nonhuman within global species extinctions. It closely interrogates novels from authors like Cormac McCarthy and Yann Martel that reject the impulse of human exceptionalism to demonstrate what it might be like to go extinct"--$cProvided by publisher.
530 $aAlso published in print.
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538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
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650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aDystopias in literature.
650 0 $aHuman ecology in literature.
650 0 $aClimatic changes in literature.
650 7 $aLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers$2bicssc
655 0 $aElectronic books.
776 08 $iPrint version:$aMcFarland, Sarah E..$tEcocollapse fiction and cultures of human extinction$dLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.$z9781350177642$w(DLC) 2020040930
830 0 $aEnvironmental cultures
852 $x9781350177659
856 40 $3Abstract with links to full text$uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781350177673?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
975 $aLiterary Studies 2021