Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown : : Entangled Futurities.
"This edited collection, which is situated within the environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, brings together utopian and dystopian representations of pandemics from across literature, the arts, and social movements. Featuring analyses of literary works, TV and film, theater...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxford : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2024. ©2025. |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Endorsements Page
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Editor Bios
- Contributor Bios
- Introduction: Entangled Futurities
- Part 1 Monsters and Monstrosity
- 1 "In the Woods the Tox is Still Wild": The EcoGothic in Rory Power's Wilder Girls
- 2 The Human/Un(human): Monster, Ecophobia, and the Posthuman Horror(scape) in Dibakar Banerjee's "Monster," Ghost Stories
- 3 A Scourge Even Worse Than Disease: Richard Matheson's I Am Legend as Pandemic Political Allegory
- Part 2 Intersectional Critique
- 4 Fungal Imaginaries: The Reconfiguration of Post-Pandemic Society in Severance and The Last of Us
- 5 Five Hundred Years of Plague: Indigenous Apocalypse in Joca Reiners Terron's Death and the Meteor
- 6 Corruption and Cleansing: An Eco-Feminist Approach to the Nature/Culture Dichotomy in Naomi Novik's Uprooted
- 7 Through Currents of Contamination: The Failure of Immunizing Insularity in Sophie Mackintosh's The Water Cure
- Part 3 More-Than-Human Mutual Aid and Eco-Justice
- 8 Dystopian Prohibitions and Utopian Possibilities in Edmonton, Canada, at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 9 Affiliation as Environmental Justice in Three Climate Novels
- 10 "A vortex of Summons and Repulsion": The Productive Abject, Posthumanisms, and the Weird in Charles Burns' Black Hole
- 11 (Un)Caring Borders: More-Than-Human Solidarities in the Bialowieza Forest
- Part 4 Creative Resistance and Utopian Glimmers
- 12 "Preservation is an Action, not a State": DIY Utopian Enclaves and Ways out of Post-Pandemic Surveillance Capitalism in Sarah Pinsker's A Song for a New Day
- 13 Pandemic Dramaturgy: Co-Designing the Performance Dying Together/Futures with COVID-19
- 14 Vitality of Nonhuman Entities: Plagues and Pandemics as Hyperobjects in Defoe, Camus, and Pamuk.
- 15 World-Building Enactments of the School Strike Movements during the Pandemic: Reading Youth Climate Crisis Movements through a Micro-and Nano-Utopian Lens
- Index.