{"product_id":"fantasy-and-myth-in-the-anthropocene-9781350203341","title":"Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarek Oziewicz\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Literacy Education and Sidney and Marguerite Henry Professor of Children's and Young Adult Literature at the College of Education and Human Development, Universty of Minnesota - Twin Cities, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eOne Earth, One People \u003c\/i\u003e(2008), which won the 2010 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies;\u003ci\u003e Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction \u003c\/i\u003e(2015); and 5 co-edited collections, and over 50 articles and book chapters.  \u003cb\u003eBrian Attebery \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English at Idaho State University, USA and Editor or the Journal of the Fantastic in Art. His publications include \u003ci\u003eStories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth \u003c\/i\u003e(2019) and \u003ci\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home\u003c\/i\u003e (2019). In 2019 he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Fantasy at the University of Glasgow.  \u003cb\u003eTereza Dedinová\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor in the Department of Czech Literature, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. She has pu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMind opening. * Language and Ecology *\u003cbr\u003eThe book’s profusion of subjects and clarity of language will make this book compelling reading for scholars of narrative genre while remaining accessible to undergraduate readers. * Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment *\u003cbr\u003eThe urgings in \u003ci\u003eFantasy and Myth\u003c\/i\u003e should be heeded. They may go far to help persuade people that we do not have to live in a dystopian world; that we cannot focus solely on end-of-the-world stories but on “how can we work together to change the world” stories * The Living Church *\u003cbr\u003eGenerally speaking, so-called fantasy and mythic literature tend to be regarded as enjoyable and yet too unrealistic to enable us to grasp the causes of the real dangers threatening our complex civilized world. This assumption is misleading if not discouraging, for as the numerous essays by notable scholars and artists in \u003ci\u003eFantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrate, fantasy and myth play an important role in helping us deal with the doom and gloom of climate change. Moreover, they provide extraordinary counter narratives that can help us reshape the world. This collection of essays is a wonderful breath of fresh optimistic air and reveals how the anticipatory imagination in contemporary myths and fantasy can help us resist the current ecological dilemma in which we find ourselves. * Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Academic Contributors List of Artists Introduction: The choice we have in the stories we tell   \u003ci\u003eMarek Oziewicz, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart I. Trouble in the Air\u003c\/b\u003e Anthropos and the Air   \u003ci\u003eBrian Attebery, Idaho State University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e   From the Third Age to the Fifth Season: confronting the Anthropocene through fantasy   \u003ci\u003eBrian Attebery\u003c\/i\u003e Who knows where the time goes?   \u003ci\u003eNisi Shawl, author, editor and journalist\u003c\/i\u003e Playing with the trouble: children and the Anthropocene in Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch series   \u003ci\u003eLindsay Burton,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Cambridge, UK\u003c\/i\u003e Rewrite   \u003ci\u003eKatherine Applegate, author\u003c\/i\u003e Staying with the singularity: nonhuman narrators and more-than-human mythologies   \u003ci\u003eAlexander Popov, Sofia University \"St. Kliment Ohridski\", Bulgaria\u003c\/i\u003e The eye of the story   \u003ci\u003eJoseph Bruchac \/ Nokidahozid, author\u003c\/i\u003e Fantasy for the Anthropocene: on the ecocidal unconscious, planetarianism, and imagination of biocentric futures   \u003ci\u003eMarek \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eOziewicz\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAstroNuts\u003c\/i\u003e, the origin story   \u003ci\u003eJon Scieszka, author\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart II. Dreaming the Earth \u003c\/b\u003e Anthropos and the Earth   \u003ci\u003eBrian Attebery\u003c\/i\u003e   Embodying the permaculture story: Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching series   \u003ci\u003eTereza Dedinová, Masaryk University, Czechia\u003c\/i\u003e  Where is the place for seagrass and weevils in children’s literature?   \u003ci\u003eEliot Schrefer, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e Arboreal magic and kinship in the Chthulucene: Margaret Mahy’s trees   \u003ci\u003eMelanie Duckworth\u003c\/i\u003e Just imagine   \u003ci\u003eBarbara Henderson, author\u003c\/i\u003e From portable landscapes to themed thrill rides: Rowling’s heterotopic hopescapes   \u003ci\u003eStephanie Weaver, Savannah College of Art and Design, USA\u003c\/i\u003e Does fantasy literature have a place in the climate change crisis?   \u003ci\u003eCraig Russell, USA\u003c\/i\u003e “The earth is my home too, can’t I help protect it?”: Planetary thinking, queer identities and environmentalism in \u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Korra\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShe-Ra \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSteven Universe\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eAneesh Barai, University of Sheffield, UK\u003c\/i\u003e Celebrations of resilience   \u003ci\u003eElin Kelsey, author and scholar\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart III: Visions in the Water\u003c\/b\u003e Anthropos and the Ocean   \u003ci\u003eBrian Attebery\u003c\/i\u003e   Kim Stanley Robinson’s case for hope in \u003ci\u003eNew York 2140\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eJohn Rieder, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, USA\u003c\/i\u003e Myth makes us see   \u003ci\u003eAdam Gidwitz, author\u003c\/i\u003e Sleeping with the fishmen: reimagining the Anthropocene through oceanic-chthonic kinships   \u003ci\u003ePrema Arasu, University of Western Australia, Australia and Drew Thornton, Curtin University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e Fish Girl’s dilemma   \u003ci\u003eDonna Jo Napoli, author\u003c\/i\u003e From culture hero to emissions zero: critiquing Maui’s extractivist mindset in Disney’s \u003ci\u003eMoana  \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher D. Foley, University of Southern Mississippi, USA\u003c\/i\u003e Finding balance and hope in the Indigenous past   \u003ci\u003eDavid Bowles, author\u003c\/i\u003e Reimagining youth relations with Moananuiakea (The large, expansive ocean): contemporary Niuhi Mo‘olelo (man-eating shark stories) and environmental activism   \u003ci\u003eCaryn \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eKunz Lesuma, Brigham Young University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e The future that has yet to be imagined   \u003ci\u003eShaun Tan, artist writer and film maker\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Playing with Fire \u003c\/b\u003e Anthropos and the Fire   \u003ci\u003eBrian Attebery\u003c\/i\u003e   Convert or kill: disanthropocentric systems and religious myth in Jemisin’s \u003ci\u003eBroken Earth\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eDerek \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eJ. Thiess, University of North Georgia, USA\u003c\/i\u003e Reimaging the upright ape   \u003ci\u003eJane Yolen, author\u003c\/i\u003e Myths of (un)creation: narrative strategies for confronting the Anthropocene   \u003ci\u003eJacob Burg, Boston University, USA \u003c\/i\u003e The stepping stone, the \u003ci\u003eBoulder\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eStar\u003c\/i\u003e: a fable for the Anthropocene   \u003ci\u003eGrace L. Dillon, Portland State University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e On monsters and other matters of housekeeping:reading Jeff VanderMeer with Donna Haraway and Ursula K. Le Guin   \u003ci\u003eKim Hendrickx, University of Leuven, Belgium\u003c\/i\u003e The seriousness of writing funny   \u003ci\u003eMolly B. Burnham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, author\u003c\/i\u003e Literalizing hyperobjects: on (mis)representing global warming in \u003ci\u003eA Song of Ice and Fire \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGame of Thrones  \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarkus Laukkanen, Tampere University, Finland\u003c\/i\u003e   Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187288367447,"sku":"9781350203341","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fantasy-and-myth-in-the-anthropocene-9781350203341","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}