This collection argues that Connie Willis's oeuvre performs science fiction's task of cognitive estrangement by highlighting by highlighting our human inability to read the times correctly-and yet also affirming the ethical imperative to attempt to truly observe and record our temporal location
This collection argues that Connie Willis's oeuvre performs science fiction's task of cognitive estrangement by highlighting by highlighting our human inability to read the times correctly-and yet also affirming the ethical imperative to attempt to truly observe and record our temporal location
Carissa Turner Smith is Professor of English and Writing Center Director at Charleston Southern University, where she teaches American literature. Her book Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction was published by Routledge in 2020.
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Introduction PART I: Contagion Chapter One: All This Has Happened Before, and All This Will Happen Again: Doomsday Book and Recurring Pandemics Joelle L. Renstrom Chapter Two: Flip Passes: Interpreting Agency and Contagion in Bellwether Jill Marie Treftz PART II: Individual and Collective Trauma Chapter Three: Emergency Unpreparedness: Responses to Disaster in Connie Willis's Passage Matthew Newcomb Chapter Four: Taking it Personally: Private Engagement with Public Trauma from World War II to J.F.K. Janet L. Bland PART III: Incarnation and Embodiment Chapter Five: "You Were Here All Along": Doomsday Book and the Bodies of Christ Chad Schrock Chapter Six: Christmas Every Day: Incarnational Theology in Connie Willis's "Inn" and "Epiphany" Erin Newcomb PART IV: Intertextuality Chapter Seven: Bell Speech in John Donne, Richard Wilbur, and Connie Willis's Doomsday Book William Tate Chapter Eight: Finding Love (and Truth?) in the Midst of Chaos: The Influence of Dorothy L. Sayers's Detective Fiction on To Say Nothing of the Dog Christine A. Colón PART V: Genre, Gender, and Xenophobia Chapter Nine: The Mote in the Jester's Eye: Aspects of Race and Gender in Connie Willis's Light Short Fiction Sylvia Kelso Chapter Ten: "Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant": Rhetorical Humor in Connie Willis's Short Fiction Rosalyn Eves PART VI: Humanist and Posthumanist Witness Chapter Eleven: Messages in a Bottle: The Historian's Ethic in Connie Willis's Quantum Universe Kathryn N. McDaniel Chapter Twelve: Schrödinger's Cathedrals: Humanist Memory and Posthumanist Sacramentality in Connie Willis's Fiction Carissa Turner Smith
Introduction PART I: Contagion Chapter One: All This Has Happened Before, and All This Will Happen Again: Doomsday Book and Recurring Pandemics Joelle L. Renstrom Chapter Two: Flip Passes: Interpreting Agency and Contagion in Bellwether Jill Marie Treftz PART II: Individual and Collective Trauma Chapter Three: Emergency Unpreparedness: Responses to Disaster in Connie Willis's Passage Matthew Newcomb Chapter Four: Taking it Personally: Private Engagement with Public Trauma from World War II to J.F.K. Janet L. Bland PART III: Incarnation and Embodiment Chapter Five: "You Were Here All Along": Doomsday Book and the Bodies of Christ Chad Schrock Chapter Six: Christmas Every Day: Incarnational Theology in Connie Willis's "Inn" and "Epiphany" Erin Newcomb PART IV: Intertextuality Chapter Seven: Bell Speech in John Donne, Richard Wilbur, and Connie Willis's Doomsday Book William Tate Chapter Eight: Finding Love (and Truth?) in the Midst of Chaos: The Influence of Dorothy L. Sayers's Detective Fiction on To Say Nothing of the Dog Christine A. Colón PART V: Genre, Gender, and Xenophobia Chapter Nine: The Mote in the Jester's Eye: Aspects of Race and Gender in Connie Willis's Light Short Fiction Sylvia Kelso Chapter Ten: "Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant": Rhetorical Humor in Connie Willis's Short Fiction Rosalyn Eves PART VI: Humanist and Posthumanist Witness Chapter Eleven: Messages in a Bottle: The Historian's Ethic in Connie Willis's Quantum Universe Kathryn N. McDaniel Chapter Twelve: Schrödinger's Cathedrals: Humanist Memory and Posthumanist Sacramentality in Connie Willis's Fiction Carissa Turner Smith
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