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Death by landscape : essays / Elvia Wilk.
Van Pelt Library PS3623.I5452 D43 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilk, Elvia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Soft Skull edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Soft Skull, 2022.
- Summary:
- "This collection is about love, death, plants, and weird fiction. It takes its title from a Margaret Atwood story in which an adolescent girl seems to turn into a tree. It examines works by Doris Lessing, Jenny Hval, Anne Carson, Octavia Butler, Michelle Tea, Helen Phillips, Mark Fisher, Donna Haraway, and Jeff and Ann VanderMeer; it explores the erotics of compost, vampire-themed live-action roleplaying, intoxicated birds, medieval nuns, invasive spores, and solarpunk. The book asks: what kind of stories are being written that help us rethink our human-centric perspective of Earth? What kinds of narratives will make sense of the age of extinction? Death by Landscape creates a syllabus for feminist sci-fi and speculative fiction for our time"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Plants
- Death by Landscape
- This Compost
- The Plants Are Watching
- The Word Made Fresh
- 2. Planets
- What's Happening?
- Future Looks
- A Planet of Feeling
- Funhole
- 3. Bleed
- Extinction Burst
- Trauma Machine
- Ask Before You Bite
- A Book Explodes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-302).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781593767150
- 1593767153
- OCLC:
- 1285369426
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