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Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media

By Marek Oziewicz (editor) , Brian Attebery (editor) , Tereza Dedinová (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2022
ISBN
1350204161, 9781350204164, 9781350203341, 9781350203358, 9781350203365
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11312066 bytes)
Pages
272\292
Time added
2022-08-31 02:22:54

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The first study to look at the intersection of the discourse of the Anthropocene within the two highly influential storytelling modes of fantasy and myth, this book shows the need for stories that articulate visions of a biocentric, ecological civilization. Fantasy and myth have long been humanity's most advanced technologies for collective dreaming. Today they are helping us adopt a biocentric lens, re-kin us with other forms of life, and assist us in the transition to an ecological civilization. Deliberately moving away from dystopian narratives toward anticipatory imaginations of sustainable futures, this volume blends chapters by top scholars in the fields of fantasy, myth, and Young Adult literature with personal reflections by award-winning authors and illustrators of books for young audiences, including Shaun Tan, Jane Yolen, Katherine Applegate and Joseph Bruchac. Chapters cover the works of major fantasy authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Terry Prachett, J. K. Rowling, China Miéville, Barbara Henderson, Jeanette Winterson, John Crowley, Richard Powers, George R. R. Martin and Kim Stanley Robinson. They range through narratives set in the UK, USA, Nigeria, Ghana, Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia. Across the chapters, fantasy and myth are framed as spaces where visions of sustainable futures can be designed with most detail and nuance. Rather than merely criticizing the ecocidal status quo, the book asks how mythic narratives and fantastic stories can mobilize resistance around ideas necessary for the emergence of an ecological civilization. Cover Contents List of Plates List of Figures Acknowledgments Permissions List of Academic Contributors List of Artists Introduction: The Choice We Have in the Stories We Tell … Marek Oziewicz Part I Trouble in the Air 1 Anthropos and the Air Brian Attebery 2 From the Third Age to the Fifth Season: Confronting the Anthropocene through Fantasy Brian Attebery 3 Who Knows Where the Time Goes? Nisi Shawl 4 Playing with the Trouble: Children and the Anthropocene in Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch Series Lindsay Burton 5 Rewrite Katherine Applegate 6 Staying with the Singularity: Nonhuman Narrators and more-than-Human Mythologies Alexander Popov 7 The Eye of the Story Joseph Bruchac / Nokidahozid 8 Fantasy for the Anthropocene: On the Ecocidal Unconscious, Planetarianism, and Imagination of Biocentric Futures Marek Oziewicz 9 AstroNuts, the Origin Story Jon Scieszka Part II Dreaming the Earth 10 Anthropos and the Earth Brian Attebery 11 Embodying the Permaculture Story: Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching Series Tereza Dědinová 12 Where Is the Place for Seagrass and Weevils in Children’s Literature? Eliot Schrefer 13 Arboreal Magic and Kinship in the Chthulucene: Margaret Mahy’s Trees Melanie Duckworth 14 Just Imagine Barbara Henderson 15 From Portable Landscapes to Themed Thrill Rides: Rowling’s Heterotopic Hopescapes Stephanie J. Weaver 16 Does Fantasy Literature Have a Place in the Climate Change Crisis? Craig Russell 17 “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 18 Celebrations of Resilience Elin Kelsey Part III Visions in the Water 19 Anthropos and the Ocean Brian Attebery 20 Kim Stanley Robinson’s Case for Hope in New York 2140 John Rieder 21 Myth Makes Us See Adam Gidwitz 22 Sleeping with the Fishmen: Reimagining the Anthropocene through Oceanic-Chthonic Kinships Prema Arasu and Drew Thornton 23 Fish Girl’s Dilemma Donna Jo Napoli 24 From Culture Hero to Emissions Zero: Critiquing Maui’s Extractivist Mindset in Disney’s Moana Christopher D. Foley 25 Finding Balance and Hope in the Indigenous Past David Bowles 26 Reimagining Youth Relations with Moananuiākea (The Large, Expansive Ocean): Contemporary Niuhi Mo’olelo (Man-Eating Shark Stories) and Environmental Activism Caryn Lesuma 27 The Future That Has Yet to Be Imagined Shaun Tan Part IV Playing with Fire 28 Anthropos and the Fire Brian Attebery 29 Convert or Kill: Disanthropocentric Systems and Religious Myth in Jemisin’s Broken Earth Derek J. Thiess 30 Reimaging the Upright Ape Jane Yolen 31 Myths of (Un)creation: Narrative Strategies for Confronting the Anthropocene Jacob Burg 32 The Stepping Stone, the Boulder, and the Star: A Fable for the Anthropocene Grace L. Dillon 33 On Monsters and Other Matters of Housekeeping: Reading Jeff VanderMeer with Donna Haraway and Ursula K. Le Guin Kim Hendrickx 34 The Seriousness of Writing Funny Molly B. Burnham 35 Literalizing Hyperobjects: On (mis)Representing Global Warming in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones Markus Laukkanen Index

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