Dark scenes from damaged Earth : the gothic anthropocene / edited by Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund, and Johan Höglund.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edwards, Justin D., 1970- editor.

Graulund, Rune, editor.

Höglund, Johan Anders, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 pages) : black and white illustrations

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]

Summary:

An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era What can the Gothic teach us about our current geological era? More than just spooky, moonlit castles and morbid graveyards, the Gothic represents a vibrant, emergent perspective on the Anthropocene. In this volume, more than a dozen scholars move beyond longstanding perspectives on the Anthropocene--such as science fiction and apocalyptic narratives--to show that the Gothic offers a unique (and dark) interpretation of events like climate change, diminished ecosystems, and mass extinction. Embracing pop cultural phenomena like True Detective, Jaws, and Twin Peaks, as well as topics from the New Weird and prehistoric shark fiction to ruin porn and the "monstroscene," Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth demonstrates the continuing vitality of the Gothic while opening important new paths of inquiry. These essays map a genealogy of the Gothic while providing fresh perspectives on the ongoing climate chaos, the North/South divide, issues of racialization, dark ecology, questions surrounding environmental justice, and much more.

Contents:

Part I: Anthropocene

The Anthropocene

De-extinction: a Gothic masternarrative for the Anthropocene

Lovecraft vs. VanderMeer: posthuman horror (and hope?) in the zone of exception

Monstrous megalodons of the Anthropocene: extinction and adaptation in prehistoric shark fiction, 1974-2018

A violence "just below the skin": atmospheric terror and racial ecologies from the African Anthropocene

Part II: Plantationocene

Horrors of the horticultural: Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and the landscapes of the Anthropocene

True Detective's folk Gothic

Beyond the slaughterhouse: Anthropocene, animals, and Gothic

Part III: Capitalocene

Gothic in the Capitalocene: world-ecological crisis, decolonial horror, and the South African postcolony

Overpopulation: the human as inhuman

Digging up dirt: reading the Anthropocene through German Romanticism

Got a light? The dark currents of energy in Twin Peaks: The Return

Part IV: Chthulucene

The Anthropocene within: love and extinction in M. R. Carey's The Girl with All the Gifts and The Boy on the Bridge

Rot and recycle: Gothic eco-burial

Erotics and annihilation: Caitlín R. Kiernan, queering the weird, and challenges to the "Anthropocene"

Monstrocene.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Edwards, Justin D. Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth

ISBN:

1-4529-6726-1