The Anthropocene and the undead: cultural anxieties in the contemporary popular imagination
"This book explores the interconnectedness of the cultural zeitgeists around the anthropocene and the undead showing how the latter reveals increasing cultural anxieties over who and what constitutes humanity in the twenty-first century and whether it has a place in any possible post-Anthropoce...
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| adam_text | Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Anthropocene and the Undead Simon Bacon 1 PART I: UNDEAD IDENTITY IN THE ANTHROPOCENE 1 2 3 (Un)Death of the Father: Self-Sacrificing Paternity in Modern Zombie Narratives Kyle William Bishop Undeath, Theatricality, and the Ecogothic in DC Moore’s Common (2017) Gheorghe Williams 15 17 33 Maggie in the Necrocene Johan Höglund 49 PART II: UNDEAD SPACES AND “ZONES” OF THE ANTHROPOCENE 65 4 The Uncanny Valley of the Anthropocene: Short Stories about the Undead under the Brightest of Lights 67 Nils Bubandt 5 Mutants and Tourists: Horror Film, Sacrifice Zones, and Chernobyl Diaries (2012) Steffen Hantke v 85
vi 6 Contents A Panic on the 4th of July: Municipal Malfeasance, Mutation, and Monstrosity in Barry Levinson’s The Bay (2012) Rebecca Stone Gordon PART III: THE ANTHROPOCENE AND THE END OF “TIME” 7 8 9 11 12 117 Avenging the Anthropocene: Returning the Dead to Life while Destroying the Planet in The Avengers Films Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. 133 “To Remember Forever to Forget”: Into Eternity and the Anti-Anthropocene Mikaela Bobiy and Kristopher Woofter 147 “You’re Next!”: The Enemy Within and the End of the Anthropocene as Seen in Adaptations of “Who Goes There?” and The Body Snatchers Andrew J. Wilson 167 169 Nonconsensual Eco-sex: A Guided Meditation to the Permeable Membrane Sarah Lewison 183 Back from the Dead: Tailings Ponds in the Albertan Oil Sands Mining Operations Aaron Bradshaw 197 PART V: THE POST-ANTHROPOCENE, THE SYMBIOCENE, AND UNDEAD FUTURES 13 115 “Dying All the Time”: The Future as the Extended Present and the Zombification of History in the Anthropocene Elana Gomel PART IV: THE DISANTNROPOCENE: IS NOT ALL ABOUT US 10 101 Post-Anthropocenic Undying Futures: The Ecocritical Dystopian Posthuman in Lai’s The Tiger Flu and Bacigalupi’s “The People of Sand and Slag” Conrad Scott 209 211
Contents 14 15 ‘“Cause tonight is the night | When two become one”: Stranger Things, Parasitism, Assimilation, and the Abject Daisy Butcher After the End: Post-Anthropocene Future of Endzeit Lars Schmeink vii 227 243 Index 255 About the Contributors 261
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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Anthropocene and the Undead Simon Bacon 1 PART I: UNDEAD IDENTITY IN THE ANTHROPOCENE 1 2 3 (Un)Death of the Father: Self-Sacrificing Paternity in Modern Zombie Narratives Kyle William Bishop Undeath, Theatricality, and the Ecogothic in DC Moore’s Common (2017) Gheorghe Williams 15 17 33 Maggie in the Necrocene Johan Höglund 49 PART II: UNDEAD SPACES AND “ZONES” OF THE ANTHROPOCENE 65 4 The Uncanny Valley of the Anthropocene: Short Stories about the Undead under the Brightest of Lights 67 Nils Bubandt 5 Mutants and Tourists: Horror Film, Sacrifice Zones, and Chernobyl Diaries (2012) Steffen Hantke v 85
vi 6 Contents A Panic on the 4th of July: Municipal Malfeasance, Mutation, and Monstrosity in Barry Levinson’s The Bay (2012) Rebecca Stone Gordon PART III: THE ANTHROPOCENE AND THE END OF “TIME” 7 8 9 11 12 117 Avenging the Anthropocene: Returning the Dead to Life while Destroying the Planet in The Avengers Films Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. 133 “To Remember Forever to Forget”: Into Eternity and the Anti-Anthropocene Mikaela Bobiy and Kristopher Woofter 147 “You’re Next!”: The Enemy Within and the End of the Anthropocene as Seen in Adaptations of “Who Goes There?” and The Body Snatchers Andrew J. Wilson 167 169 Nonconsensual Eco-sex: A Guided Meditation to the Permeable Membrane Sarah Lewison 183 Back from the Dead: Tailings Ponds in the Albertan Oil Sands Mining Operations Aaron Bradshaw 197 PART V: THE POST-ANTHROPOCENE, THE SYMBIOCENE, AND UNDEAD FUTURES 13 115 “Dying All the Time”: The Future as the Extended Present and the Zombification of History in the Anthropocene Elana Gomel PART IV: THE DISANTNROPOCENE: IS NOT ALL ABOUT US 10 101 Post-Anthropocenic Undying Futures: The Ecocritical Dystopian Posthuman in Lai’s The Tiger Flu and Bacigalupi’s “The People of Sand and Slag” Conrad Scott 209 211
Contents 14 15 ‘“Cause tonight is the night | When two become one”: Stranger Things, Parasitism, Assimilation, and the Abject Daisy Butcher After the End: Post-Anthropocene Future of Endzeit Lars Schmeink vii 227 243 Index 255 About the Contributors 261 |
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