Known to have occurred at least five times in Earth’s geologic past, mass extinction is defined as “a significant reduction in the number of individual organisms inhabiting the planet and at the same time a significant reduction in the diversity of species made up by those organisms" (p. Released in the "Ecocritical Theory and Practice" series (begun in 2007), this groundbreaking collection offers a thoughtful exploration of 20th- and 21st-century fiction and its treatment of mass extinction, with all its complex issues.
Sawyer’s Calculating God and Extinction’s In China Miéville’s Three Moments of an ExplosionĬhapter 7: The Tragic Comedy of Humanity: Life after Species Extinction in Éric Chevillard’s SansĬhapter 8: Godly Mass Extinction: Robert J. Lovecraft and Jeff VanderMeerĬhapter 4: “My Heart Slowly Cracks”: Making Kin and Living through Extinction in Erdrich’sĬhapter 5: “You Are Here”: Extinction as Familial in The Broken EarthĬhapter 6: The Uncanny, the Weird, and the Eerie: Hyperobjects and Anthropocenic Modalities Introduction: The Urgency of Story During the Sixth Mass ExtinctionĬhapter 1: Telling Stories about Dying (Out): Thomas Pynchon’s Global Novels and theĬhapter 2: “Life Finds a Way”: Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, and Extinction AnxietyĬhapter 3: “The Integrity of Nature”: A Comparative Analysis of Environmental Anxieties in theįictions of H.P. Answering the call to action of extinction studies, these chapters explore what kinds of humanity caused this event and what kinds may live through it what cultural assumptions and values led to this event and which ones could lead out of it what relationships between human life and this planet allowed the sixth mass extinction and what alternative relationships could be possible. In various and disparate ways, each chapter engages with the stories we tell about extinction, about the extinction of animal and plant life, and about the extinction of human life itself. This volume takes up the collective insistence on the centrality of story to extinction studies. The result is a volume that both engages with and furthers existing work on Anthropocene fiction as well as laying groundwork for the budding subfield of extinction fiction.
Drawing together a diverse group of scholars and approaches, this volume pairs established voices in the field with emerging scholars and traditionally recognized climate fiction ('cli-fi') with texts and media typically not associated with Anthropocene fictions. Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction is one of the first works to focus specifically on fiction’s engagements with human driven extinction.
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