The first study to look at the intersection of the discourse of the Anthropocene within the two highly influential storytelling modes of fantasy and myth, this book shows the need for stories that articulate visions of a biocentric, ecological civilization. Fantasy and myth have long been humanity's most advanced technologies for collective dreaming. Today they are helping us adopt a biocentric lens, re-kin us with other forms of life, and assist us in the transition to an ecological civilization. Deliberately moving away from dystopian narratives toward anticipatory imaginations of…mehr
The first study to look at the intersection of the discourse of the Anthropocene within the two highly influential storytelling modes of fantasy and myth, this book shows the need for stories that articulate visions of a biocentric, ecological civilization. Fantasy and myth have long been humanity's most advanced technologies for collective dreaming. Today they are helping us adopt a biocentric lens, re-kin us with other forms of life, and assist us in the transition to an ecological civilization. Deliberately moving away from dystopian narratives toward anticipatory imaginations of sustainable futures, this volume blends chapters by top scholars in the fields of fantasy, myth, and Young Adult literature with personal reflections by award-winning authors and illustrators of books for young audiences, including Shaun Tan, Jane Yolen, Katherine Applegate and Joseph Bruchac. Chapters cover the works of major fantasy authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Terry Prachett, J. K. Rowling, China Miéville, Barbara Henderson, Jeanette Winterson, John Crowley, Richard Powers, George R. R. Martin and Kim Stanley Robinson. They range through narratives set in the UK, USA, Nigeria, Ghana, Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia. Across the chapters, fantasy and myth are framed as spaces where visions of sustainable futures can be designed with most detail and nuance. Rather than merely criticizing the ecocidal status quo, the book asks how mythic narratives and fantastic stories can mobilize resistance around ideas necessary for the emergence of an ecological civilization.
Marek Oziewicz is Professor of Literacy Education and Sidney and Marguerite Henry Professor of Children's and Young Adult Literature at the College of Education and Human Development, Universty of Minnesota - Twin Cities, USA. He is the author of One Earth, One People (2008), which won the 2010 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies; Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction (2015); and 5 co-edited collections, and over 50 articles and book chapters. Brian Attebery is Professor of English at Idaho State University, USA and Editor or the Journal of the Fantastic in Art. His publications include Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth (2019) and Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home (2019). In 2019 he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Fantasy at the University of Glasgow. Tereza Dedinová is Assistant Professor in the Department of Czech Literature, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. She has published on theory of the fantastic from the cognitive perspective, on the representation of the actual world in fantasy, and on the Czech fantastika.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Academic Contributors List of Artists Introduction: The choice we have in the stories we tell Marek Oziewicz University of Minnesota-Twin Cities USA Part I. Trouble in the Air Anthropos and the Air Brian Attebery Idaho State University USA From the Third Age to the Fifth Season: confronting the Anthropocene through fantasy Brian Attebery Who knows where the time goes? Nisi Shawl author editor and journalist Playing with the trouble: children and the Anthropocene in Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch series Lindsay Burton University of Cambridge UK Rewrite Katherine Applegate author Staying with the singularity: nonhuman narrators and more-than-human mythologies Alexander Popov Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Bulgaria The eye of the story Joseph Bruchac / Nokidahozid author Fantasy for the Anthropocene: on the ecocidal unconscious planetarianism and imagination of biocentric futures Marek Oziewicz AstroNuts the origin story Jon Scieszka author Part II. Dreaming the Earth Anthropos and the Earth Brian Attebery Embodying the permaculture story: Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series Tereza Dedinová Masaryk University Czechia Where is the place for seagrass and weevils in children's literature? Eliot Schrefer Fairleigh Dickinson University USA Arboreal magic and kinship in the Chthulucene: Margaret Mahy's trees Melanie Duckworth Just imagine Barbara Henderson author From portable landscapes to themed thrill rides: Rowling's heterotopic hopescapes Stephanie Weaver Savannah College of Art and Design USA Does fantasy literature have a place in the climate change crisis? Craig Russell USA "The earth is my home too can't I help protect it?": Planetary thinking queer identities and environmentalism in The Legend of Korra She-Ra and Steven Universe Aneesh Barai University of Sheffield UK Celebrations of resilience Elin Kelsey author and scholar Part III: Visions in the Water Anthropos and the Ocean Brian Attebery Kim Stanley Robinson's case for hope in New York 2140 John Rieder University of Hawai'i at Manoa USA Myth makes us see Adam Gidwitz author Sleeping with the fishmen: reimagining the Anthropocene through oceanic-chthonic kinships Prema Arasu University of Western Australia Australia and Drew Thornton Curtin University USA Fish Girl's dilemma Donna Jo Napoli author From culture hero to emissions zero: critiquing Maui's extractivist mindset in Disney's Moana Christopher D. Foley University of Southern Mississippi USA Finding balance and hope in the Indigenous past David Bowles author Reimagining youth relations with Moananuiakea (The large expansive ocean): contemporary Niuhi Mo'olelo (man-eating shark stories) and environmental activism Caryn Kunz Lesuma Brigham Young University USA The future that has yet to be imagined Shaun Tan artist writer and film maker Part IV: Playing with Fire Anthropos and the Fire Brian Attebery Convert or kill: disanthropocentric systems and religious myth in Jemisin's Broken Earth Derek J. Thiess University of North Georgia USA Reimaging the upright ape Jane Yolen author Myths of (un)creation: narrative strategies for confronting the Anthropocene Jacob Burg Boston University USA The stepping stone the Boulder and the Star: a fable for the Anthropocene Grace L. Dillon Portland State University USA On monsters and other matters of housekeeping:reading Jeff VanderMeer with Donna Haraway and Ursula K. Le Guin Kim Hendrickx University of Leuven Belgium The seriousness of writing funny Molly B. Burnham author Literalizing hyperobjects: on (mis)representing global warming in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones Markus Laukkanen Tampere University Finland Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Academic Contributors List of Artists Introduction: The choice we have in the stories we tell Marek Oziewicz University of Minnesota-Twin Cities USA Part I. Trouble in the Air Anthropos and the Air Brian Attebery Idaho State University USA From the Third Age to the Fifth Season: confronting the Anthropocene through fantasy Brian Attebery Who knows where the time goes? Nisi Shawl author editor and journalist Playing with the trouble: children and the Anthropocene in Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch series Lindsay Burton University of Cambridge UK Rewrite Katherine Applegate author Staying with the singularity: nonhuman narrators and more-than-human mythologies Alexander Popov Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Bulgaria The eye of the story Joseph Bruchac / Nokidahozid author Fantasy for the Anthropocene: on the ecocidal unconscious planetarianism and imagination of biocentric futures Marek Oziewicz AstroNuts the origin story Jon Scieszka author Part II. Dreaming the Earth Anthropos and the Earth Brian Attebery Embodying the permaculture story: Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series Tereza Dedinová Masaryk University Czechia Where is the place for seagrass and weevils in children's literature? Eliot Schrefer Fairleigh Dickinson University USA Arboreal magic and kinship in the Chthulucene: Margaret Mahy's trees Melanie Duckworth Just imagine Barbara Henderson author From portable landscapes to themed thrill rides: Rowling's heterotopic hopescapes Stephanie Weaver Savannah College of Art and Design USA Does fantasy literature have a place in the climate change crisis? Craig Russell USA "The earth is my home too can't I help protect it?": Planetary thinking queer identities and environmentalism in The Legend of Korra She-Ra and Steven Universe Aneesh Barai University of Sheffield UK Celebrations of resilience Elin Kelsey author and scholar Part III: Visions in the Water Anthropos and the Ocean Brian Attebery Kim Stanley Robinson's case for hope in New York 2140 John Rieder University of Hawai'i at Manoa USA Myth makes us see Adam Gidwitz author Sleeping with the fishmen: reimagining the Anthropocene through oceanic-chthonic kinships Prema Arasu University of Western Australia Australia and Drew Thornton Curtin University USA Fish Girl's dilemma Donna Jo Napoli author From culture hero to emissions zero: critiquing Maui's extractivist mindset in Disney's Moana Christopher D. Foley University of Southern Mississippi USA Finding balance and hope in the Indigenous past David Bowles author Reimagining youth relations with Moananuiakea (The large expansive ocean): contemporary Niuhi Mo'olelo (man-eating shark stories) and environmental activism Caryn Kunz Lesuma Brigham Young University USA The future that has yet to be imagined Shaun Tan artist writer and film maker Part IV: Playing with Fire Anthropos and the Fire Brian Attebery Convert or kill: disanthropocentric systems and religious myth in Jemisin's Broken Earth Derek J. Thiess University of North Georgia USA Reimaging the upright ape Jane Yolen author Myths of (un)creation: narrative strategies for confronting the Anthropocene Jacob Burg Boston University USA The stepping stone the Boulder and the Star: a fable for the Anthropocene Grace L. Dillon Portland State University USA On monsters and other matters of housekeeping:reading Jeff VanderMeer with Donna Haraway and Ursula K. Le Guin Kim Hendrickx University of Leuven Belgium The seriousness of writing funny Molly B. Burnham author Literalizing hyperobjects: on (mis)representing global warming in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones Markus Laukkanen Tampere University Finland Index
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