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Dystopias and utopias on Earth and beyond : feminist ecocriticism of science fiction

Title
Dystopias and utopias on Earth and beyond : feminist ecocriticism of science fiction / edited by Douglas A. Vakoch.
Publication
  • New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
  • ©2021

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Vakoch, Douglas A.
Description
xxx, 167 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
"Caught as we are in a grave climate crisis that seems more irreversible with every passing year, our literary portrayals of the future often feature the dystopian collapse of the world as we know it. Science fiction explores how we got here, while pointing toward a more hopeful path forward. From an ecofeminist perspective, a core cause of our current ecological catastrophe is the patriarchal domination of nature, playing out in parallel with the oppression of women. As an alternative to dystopian futures that seem increasingly inevitable, ecofeminist science fiction helps us conjure utopias that promote environmental sustainability based on more egalitarian human relationships. Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction explores the fictional worlds of such canonical novelists as Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Joan Slonczewski, as well as those of lesser-known science fiction writers, as they collectively probe humanity's greatest existential threats. Contributors from five continents provide compelling analyzes of far future dystopias on Earth that are all too easy to imagine becoming reality if humankind's current trajectory continues, as well as provocative insights into science fiction utopias set on idyllic planets orbiting distant stars, which offer liberatory alternatives that might someday be actualized in the real world. By examining the links between the destruction of the environment and the domination of women, Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond provides the tools to counteract those intertwined oppressions, helping create a foundation for a truly habitable world"--
Series Statement
Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
Uniform Title
Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment.
Subject
  • 1900-2099
  • Science fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
  • English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • English fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
  • Ecofeminism in literature
  • Dystopias in literature
  • Utopias in literature
  • American fiction
  • English fiction
  • Science fiction > Women authors
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword: Ecofeminism and speculative fiction : a writer's reflection / Vandana Singh -- Preface / Douglas A. Vakoch -- Introduction / Patrick D. Murphy -- Climate change and future Earth dystopias. An ecofeminist reading of Octavia Butler's Parable of the sower and Parable of talents / Hatice Övgü Tüzün -- An ecofeminist treatment of nourishment and feeding in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy / Debra Wain -- Margaret Atwood's ecodystopic SF : approaching ethics, gender, and ecology / Izabel F. O. Brandão and Ildney Cavalcant -- Ecofeminist (post) Ice-Age ecotopia : Doris Lessing's 'Mara and Dann' books / Julia Kuznetsk -- Ecofeminist climate fiction : Merlinda Bobis's Locust girl / Iris Ralph -- Utopias on Earth and beyond. 'Extinction is forever' : ecofeminism and apocalypse in Louise Lawrence's young adult short fiction / Michelle Deininger and Gemma Scammel -- Ecofeminist utopian speculations in Henrietta Augusta Dugdale's A Few hours in a far-off age (1883), Catherine Helen Spence's A Week in the future (1888), Mary Anne Moore-Bentley's A Woman of Mars; or, Australia's enfranchised woman (1901), and Joyce Vincent's The Celestial hand: a sensational story / Nicole Anae -- Alien ecofeminist societies : sharers in Joan Slonczewski's A Door into ocean / Irene Sanz Alonso -- Re-reading Ursula K. Le Guin's SF : the Daoist yin principle in ecofeminist novels / Amy Chan Kit-sze -- Keeping grows; giving flows : reciprocal relations and the gift of Always coming home / Karl Zuelke -- 'The revolt of the mother' : romanticizing nature and rejecting science in Sally Miller Gearhart's The Wanderground and other feminist utopias / Christy Tidwell.
Call Number
JFE 22-1321
ISBN
  • 9780367716233
  • 0367716232
LCCN
2020052023
OCLC
1233022458
Title
Dystopias and utopias on Earth and beyond : feminist ecocriticism of science fiction / edited by Douglas A. Vakoch.
Publisher
New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1900-2099
Added Author
Vakoch, Douglas A., editor.
Other Form:
Online version: Dystopias and utopias on Earth and beyond New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 9781003152989 (DLC) 2020052024
Research Call Number
JFE 22-1321
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