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Fantasy and myth in the Anthropocene : imagining futures and dreaming hope in literature and media / edited by Marek Oziewicz, Brian Attebery and Tereza Dedinová.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy fiction--History and criticism.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Future, The, in literature.
- Ecocriticism.
- Myth in literature.
- Human ecology in literature.
- Speculative fiction--History and criticism.
- Speculative fiction.
- Young adult literature--History and criticism.
- Young adult literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Academic Contributors List of Artists Introduction: The choice we have in the stories we tell Marek Oziewicz, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA Part I. Trouble in the Air Anthropos and the Air Brian Attebery, Idaho State University, USA . From the Third Age to the Fifth Season: confronting the Anthropocene through fantasy Brian Attebery Who knows where the time goes? / Nisi Shawl, author, editor and journalist Playing with the trouble: children and the Anthropocene in Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch series / Lindsay Burton, University of Cambridge, UK Rewrite / Katherine Applegate, author Staying with the singularity: nonhuman narrators and more-than-human mythologies Alexander Popov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria The eye of the story Joseph Bruchac
- Nokidahozid, author Fantasy for the Anthropocene: on the ecocidal unconscious, planetarianism, and imagination of biocentric futures Marek Oziewicz AstroNuts , the origin story Jon Scieszka, author
- Part II. Dreaming the Earth Anthropos and the Earth Brian Attebery Embodying the permaculture story: Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series / Tereza Dedinová, Masaryk University, Czechia Where is the place for seagrass and weevils in children's literature? / Eliot Schrefer, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA Arboreal magic and kinship in the Chthulucene: Margaret Mahy's trees / Melanie Duckworth Just imagine / Barbara Henderson, author From portable landscapes to themed thrill rides: Rowling's heterotopic hopescapes / Stephanie Weaver, Savannah College of Art and Design, USA Does fantasy literature have a place in the climate change crisis? / Craig Russell, USA "The earth is my home too, can't I help protect it?" Planetary thinking, queer identities and environmentalism in The Legend of Korra / She-Ra and Steven Universe Aneesh Barai, University of Sheffield, UK Celebrations of resilience / Elin Kelsey, author and scholar
- Part III: Visions in the Water Anthropos and the Ocean / Brian Attebery, Kim Stanley Robinson's case for hope in New York / John Rieder, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA Myth makes us see / Adam Gidwitz, author Sleeping with the fishmen: reimagining the Anthropocene through oceanic-chthonic kinships / Prema Arasu, University of Western Australia, Australia and Drew Thornton, Curtin University, USA Fish Girl's dilemma / Donna Jo Napoli, author From culture hero to emissions zero: critiquing Maui's extractivist mindset in Disney's Moana / Christopher D. Foley, University of Southern Mississippi, USA Finding balance and hope in the Indigenous past / David Bowles, author Reimagining youth relations with Moananuiakea (The large, expansive ocean): contemporary Niuhi Mo'lelo (man-eating shark stories) and environmental activism / Caryn Kunz Lesuma, Brigham Young University, USA The future that has yet to be imagined / Shaun Tan, artist writer and film maker
- Part IV: Playing with Fire Anthropos and the Fire / Brian Attebery ; Convert or kill: disanthropocentric systems and religious myth in Jemisin's Broken Earth / Derek J. Thiess, University of North Georgia, USA Reimaging the upright ape / Jane Yolen, author Myths of (un)creation: narrative strategies for confronting the Anthropocene / Jacob Burg, Boston University, USA ; The stepping stone, the Boulder , and the Star : a fable for the Anthropocene / Grace L. Dillon, Portland State University, USA On monsters and other matters of housekeeping:reading Jeff Vander Meer with Donna Haraway and Ursula K. Le Guin / Kim Hendrickx, University of Leuven, Belgium The seriousness of writing funny Molly B. Burnham, author Literalizing hyperobjects: on (mis)representing global warming in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones Markus Laukkanen, Tampere University, Finland
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed February 1, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Fantasy and myth in the Anthropocene
- ISBN:
- 9781350203372
- 1350203378
- 9781350203365
- 135020336X
- 9781350203358
- 1350203351
- Publisher Number:
- 99990907244
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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