The Dark Matter of Children's "Fantastika" Literature : Speculative Entanglements / Chloe Germaine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Germaine, Chloé, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature

Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's stories, English--History and criticism.

Children's stories, English.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.

Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism.

Fantasy fiction, English.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Following the 'material turn' in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with children's fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in the twenty-first century. It develops the concept of 'entanglement', which originated in twentieth-century quantum physics but has been applied to cultural critique, through a reading of Fantastika literature. It surveys a wide-raging scope of literary texts, covering the gothic, fantasy and other forms of speculative fiction, to argue that Fantastika positions entanglemet as an ethical imperative that transforms our imaginative relationship with materiality. In doing so, it synthesizes perspectives from a similarly diverse range of areas, including ecology, physics, anthropology, biology and literary studies to examine the storied matter of children's Fantastika as ground from which we might to begin to imagine an as-yet-unrealised future that addresses the problems of our present."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Entanglement as Ethics

Chapter 1: Occult Materialism and Fantasy Landscapes

Chapter 2: Kinship and Predation in Multispecies Storytelling

Chapter 3: Other Minds - Disassembling the ghost in the machine

Chapter 4: New Animism/Old Witchcraft

Chapter 5: (Un)Timely Gothic Histories

Chapter 6: Worlds' End - Weird and Speculative Ecologies

Conclusions: From Chronos to Kairos - Fantastika and Futurity

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350167049

OCLC:

1289419547

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.