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  title info:
    title: Fiction and the sixth mass extinction
    sub title: narrative in an era of loss
  name:
    name part: Elmore, Jonathan
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 169 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction is one of the first works to focus specifically on fiction's engagements with human driven extinction. Drawing together a diverse group of scholars and approaches, this volume pairs established voices in the field with emerging scholars and traditionally recognized cli-fi with texts and media typically not associated with Anthropocene fictions. The result is a volume that both engages with and furthers existing work on Anthropocene fiction as well as laying groundwork for the budding subfield of extinction fiction. This volume takes up the collective insistence on the centrality of story to extinction studies. In various and disparate ways, each chapter engages with the stories we tell about extinction, about the extinction of animal and plant life, and about the extinction of human life itself. Answering the call to action of extinction studies, these chapters explore what kinds of humanity caused this event and what kinds may live through it; what cultural assumptions and values led to this event and which ones could lead out of it; what relationships between human life and this planet allowed the sixth mass extinction and what alternative relationships could be possible.
  table of contents: Telling stories about dying (out) : Thomas Pynchon's global novels and the anthropocene extinction / Michael Fuchs -- "Life finds a way" : Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, and extinction anxiety / Christy Tidwell -- "The integrity of nature" : a comparative analysis of environmental anxieties in the fictions of H.P. Lovecraft and Jeff VanderMeer / Kristin Figgins -- "My heart slowly cracks" : making kin and living through extinction in Erdrich's Future home of the living God / Bridgitte Barclay -- "You are here" : extinction as familial in The broken earth / Erin DeYoung -- The uncanny, the weird, and the eerie : hyperobjects and anthropocenic modalities in China Miéville's Three moments of an explosion / Allan Rae -- The tragic comedy of humanity : life after species extinction in Éric Chevillard's Sans l'orang-outan / Christina Lord -- Godly mass extinction : Robert J. Sawyer's Calculating God and extinction's teleologies / Jenni G Halpin.
  note: edited by Jonathan Elmore.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ecocriticism
  subject:
    topic: Environmental literature
  subject:
    topic: Disasters in literature
  subject:
    topic: Extinction (Biology)
  classification: PN98.E36 F53 2020
  classification: 809.3936
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Fiction and the sixth mass extinction
    origin info:
      publisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2020]
    identifier: (OCoLC)1155980181
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ecocritical theory and practice
  identifier: 9781793619198
  identifier: 1793619190
  identifier: 9781793619204
  identifier: 1793619204
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 200217
    record change date: 20250318220744.7
    record identifier: in00004265880
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng