Dystopias and utopias on Earth and beyond : feminist ecocriticism of science fiction /
Caught as we are in a grave climate crisis that seems more irreversible with every passing year, our literary portrayals of the future often feature the dystopian collapse of the world as we know it. Science fiction explores how we got here, while pointing toward a more hopeful path forward. From an...
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New York :
Routledge,
[2021].
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| Series: | Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Ecofeminism and speculative fiction : a writer's reflection / Vandana Singh
- Preface / Douglas A. Vakoch
- Introduction / Patrick D. Murphy
- Climate change and future Earth dystopias. An ecofeminist reading of Octavia Butler's Parable of the sower and Parable of talents / Hatice Övgü Tüzün
- An ecofeminist treatment of nourishment and feeding in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy / Debra Wain
- Margaret Atwood's ecodystopic SF : approaching ethics, gender, and ecology / Izabel F. O. Brandão and Ildney Cavalcant
- Ecofeminist (post) Ice-Age ecotopia : Doris Lessing's 'Mara and Dann' books / Julia Kuznetsk
- Ecofeminist climate fiction : Merlinda Bobis's Locust girl / Iris Ralph
- Utopias on Earth and beyond. 'Extinction is forever' : ecofeminism and apocalypse in Louise Lawrence's young adult short fiction / Michelle Deininger and Gemma Scammel
- Ecofeminist utopian speculations in Henrietta Augusta Dugdale's A Few hours in a far-off age (1883), Catherine Helen Spence's A Week in the future (1888), Mary Anne Moore-Bentley's A Woman of Mars; or, Australia's enfranchised woman (1901), and Joyce Vincent's The Celestial hand: a sensational story / Nicole Anae
- Alien ecofeminist societies : sharers in Joan Slonczewski's A Door into ocean / Irene Sanz Alonso
- Re-reading Ursula K. Le Guin's SF : the Daoist yin principle in ecofeminist novels / Amy Chan Kit-sze
- Keeping grows; giving flows : reciprocal relations and the gift of Always coming home / Karl Zuelke
- 'The revolt of the mother' : romanticizing nature and rejecting science in Sally Miller Gearhart's The Wanderground and other feminist utopias / Christy Tidwell.