Imagining the Anthropocene Future: Body and the Environment in Indigenous Speculative Fiction

ISBN-13: 9783631905784 / Angielski

Agnieszka Uberman; Paula Wieczorek

Opis

This study looks at alternative representations of the Anthropocene future by selected North American Indigenous female writers. Drawing on Indigenous scholarship and theories of New Materialism, the book addresses the possibilities for more complex conceptions of the materiality of human bodies and the more-than-human world.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Dualistic thinking and its implications - Chapter 2. Attempts at overcoming mind- body dualisms - Chapter 3. "We Are the Land": Toward understanding the Native American worldview - Chapter 4. Bodies, class, technology and environmental injustice in Zainab Amadahy's speculative fiction - Chapter 5. Reimagining heroism: Sacred mountains, plants and Indigenous women in Rebecca Roanhorse's and Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel's speculative fiction - Chapter 6. Biopolitical futures: Indigenous bodies, Native American DNA and making kin in the Anthropocene

O autorze

Paula Wieczorek is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, Poland. She specialises in contemporary Native American literature, ecocriticism and posthumanism.