1st Edition
Surreal Entanglements Essays on Jeff VanderMeer’s Fiction
Introduction:
Weird Ecology: VanderMeer’s Anthropocene Fiction
Louise Economides and Laura Shackelford
Node 1: More-than-Human Traces and Symbiotic Monsters – A Posthumanist Politics for the Anthropocene Era?
Chapter 1:
Home on the Strange: The Queering of Place in VanderMeer’s Borne Books
Louise Economides
Chapter 2:
Acceptance and Continuation: Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy and Hope in the Anthropocene
Arwen Spicer
Chapter 3:
Entangled Care and the Trouble with Making Family in Borne
Samuel Gormley
Chapter 4:
‘Love Your Monsters:’ Anthropocene Discourse and Green" Psychoanalysis in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne and The Strange Bird: A Borne Story
Sydney Lane
Node 2: Materialist Speculation after Quantum Physics
Chapter 5:
Microbiology and Microcosms: Ecosystem and the Body in Shriek: An Afterword
Octavia Cade
Chapter 6:
Strange Matters: More-than-Human Entanglements and Topological Spacetimes
Laura Shackelford
Chapter 7:
Street Smarts for Smart Streets
Rob Coley
Chapter 8:
Tentacular Narrative Webs: Unthinking Humans in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy
Dunja M. Mohr
Node 3: Aesthetics of Perception and Genre Sense; or Politics Made Perceptible
Chapter 9:
Genre Tentacular: Area X and the Southern Neogothic
Lee Rozelle
Chapter 10:
‘Another World, another life:’ Humans, Monsters, and Politics in Predator: South China Sea
Benjamin J. Robertson
Chapter 11:
Can You Describe Its Form? Annihilation and Cinematic Adaptation
Cameron Kunzelman
Chapter 12:
Love in the Time of the Anthropocene: A Conversation Between Alison Sperling and Jeff VanderMeer
Alison Sperling
Biography
Louise Economides is a professor of English and director of the Literature and the Environment program at the University of Montana, Missoula.
Laura Shackelford is Associate Professor of English and founding Director of the Center for Engaged Storycraft at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
