The dark matter of children's 'fantastika' literature: speculative entanglements

"Following the 'material turn' in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with children's fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in the 21st century. It develops the concept of 'entanglement', which originated in...

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1. Verfasser: Germaine, Chloé (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Bloomsbury Academic 2023
Ausgabe:First published in Great Britain
Schriftenreihe:Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature
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Online-Zugang:https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350167049?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
Zusammenfassung:"Following the 'material turn' in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with children's fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in the 21st century. It develops the concept of 'entanglement', which originated in 20th century quantum physics but has been applied to cultural critique, through a reading of Fantastika literature. It surveys a wide-raging scope of literary texts, covering the gothic, fantasy and other forms of speculative fiction, to argue that Fantastika positions entanglemet as an ethical imperative that transforms our imaginative relationship with materiality. In doing so, it synthesizes perspectives from a similarly diverse range of areas, including ecology, physics, anthropology, biology and literary studies to examine the storied matter of children's Fantastika as ground from which we might to begin to imagine an as-yet-unrealised future that addresses the problems of our present"--
Beschreibung:ix, 220 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9781350167018
1350167010
9781350417274
1350417270
DOI:10.5040/9781350167049

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