{"product_id":"surreal-entanglements-9781032003740","title":"Surreal Entanglements","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer's fiction. In contrast to universalist and essentializing ways of responding to new material realities, VanderMeer's work invites us to re-imagine human subjectivity and other collectivities in the light of historically unique entanglements we face today: the ecological, technological, aesthetic, epistemological, and political challenges of life in the Anthropocene era. Situating these messy, multi-scalar, material complexities of life in close relation to their ecological, material, and colonialist histories, his fiction renders them at once troublingly familiar and strangely generative of other potentialities and insight. The collection measures VanderMeer's work as a new kind of speculative surrealism, his texts capturing the strangeness of navigating a world in which nature has become radically uncanny due to glo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeird Ecology: VanderMeer’s Anthropocene Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouise Economides and Laura Shackelford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNode 1: More-than-Human Traces and Symbiotic Monsters – A Posthumanist Politics for the Anthropocene Era?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHome on the Strange: The Queering of Place in VanderMeer’s \u003ci\u003eBorne\u003c\/i\u003e Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouise Economides\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcceptance and Continuation: Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy and Hope in the Anthropocene\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArwen Spicer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEntangled Care and the Trouble with Making Family in \u003ci\u003eBorne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel Gormley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Love Your Monsters:’ Anthropocene Discourse and Green\" Psychoanalysis in Jeff VanderMeer’s \u003ci\u003eBorne \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Bird: A Borne Story\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSydney Lane\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNode 2: Materialist Speculation after Quantum Physics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMicrobiology and Microcosms: Ecosystem and the Body in \u003ci\u003eShriek: An Afterword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOctavia Cade\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrange Matters: More-than-Human Entanglements and Topological Spacetimes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Shackelford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStreet Smarts for Smart Streets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRob Coley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTentacular Narrative Webs: Unthinking Humans in Jeff VanderMeer's \u003ci\u003eSouthern Reach\u003c\/i\u003e Trilogy\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDunja M. Mohr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNode 3: Aesthetics of Perception and Genre Sense; or Politics Made Perceptible\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenre Tentacular: Area X and the Southern Neogothic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLee Rozelle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Another World, another life:’ Humans, Monsters, and Politics in \u003ci\u003ePredator: South China Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin J. Robertson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan You Describe Its Form? \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e and Cinematic Adaptation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCameron Kunzelman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove in the Time of the Anthropocene: A Conversation Between Alison Sperling and Jeff VanderMeer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlison Sperling\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018784276823,"sku":"9781032003740","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032003740.jpg?v=1750778141","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/surreal-entanglements-9781032003740","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}