Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction

Using an innovative multidisciplinary approach which is deeply invested in posthumanist thought, this book demonstrates how reading science fiction shapes the way we engage with lived environments. In dialogue with works by widely studied science fiction authors Greg Bear, N.K. Jemisin, Paolo Bacigalupi, and Jeff VanderMeer, it draws out how they function as mutant narratives. The first to systematically integrate three fields - feminist posthumanism, cognitive narratology, and science fiction studies - it offers a complex and coherent understanding of readerly experience as material, embodied, dynamic, and imaginative. Covering a range of urgent topics, including climate fiction, New Weird fiction, and new phenomenologies of the body, this book is the first to demonstrate how readerly experience acts as a site for ethical and political reorientation in the time of climate change.>

Préface
Demonstrating how reading science fiction shapes the way we engage with lived environments, this book also explores the emergence of more-than-human modes of embodiment in reading contemporary ecological science fiction.

Auteur
Kaisa Kortekallio is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland, affiliated with the research consortium Instrumental Narratives: The Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory (20182022). She has published on contemporary ecological speculative fiction, New Weird fiction, more-than-human subjectivity, and narrative experientiality.

Contenu
Introduction: Literary Studies in the Anthropocene 1 More-than-Human Reading and Experiential Change 2 Mutant Figures and Reading Bodies 3 Readerly Choreographies 4 Embodied Estrangement and Jeff VanderMeer's The Southern Reach Conclusion Bibliography