Science Fiction Theory and Ecocriticism : Environments and Nature in Eco-dystopian and Post-apocalyptic Novels

ISBN-13: 9783330001220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 100 str.

Tania Lafontaine

Opis

The transformation and the destruction of nature often lead to science fiction most potent narratives and most striking imagery. Studying science fiction from an ecocritical standpoint offers a productive, interesting and relevant way to analyze how nature and environments are represented in this genre, while providing insight on the workings of science fiction itself. This book offers a survey of science fiction theory and an experiment in ecocriticism; it presents an analysis of the representations of nature and environments in the Rifters Trilogy by Peter Watts, and the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy. In these novels, nature is in turn hybrid, dying, destroyed, lost, absent and mourned. Both works re-imagine nature, re-contextualize environments, and ultimately present post-natural worlds in ways that evidence similar literary strategies but with a major critical difference. This book should help shed some light on science fiction theory, ecocriticism, ecodystopian and post-apocalyptic literature, as well as concepts such as the post-natural, and should be especially useful to students and researchers exploring these topics.

O autorze

Tania Lafontaine, M.A. : Studied Comparative Canadian Literature at Université de Sherbrooke. B.A. in translation and literature also at Université de Sherbrooke. Freelance translator from English to French and researcher specialized in the field of science fiction.