Overview
- Features topics relevant to postcolonial studies, critical race studies, and environmental studies
- Places canonical science fiction authors alongside emerging creators
- Explores and critiques the non-human animal’s role in society through science fiction futures
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature (PSAAL)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Affect and Identity
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Animal Communication
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Bio-intervention and Corporeality
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Community (Re)building and Entanglements
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nora Castle is an IAS Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick. She recently completed her PhD, entitled, “Food Futures: Food, Foodways, and Environmental Crisis in Contemporary Science Fiction,” which explored the future of food in/as science fiction through meat, plants, kitchens, and farms as thematic streams.
Giulia Champion is a Research Fellow (Anniversary Fellowship) at the University of Southampton. Her project investigates different communities’ engagement with and representations of the seabed through culture, science communication and international policy. It interrogates how these may influence marine governance, multispecies relations and Environmental and Ocean Justice.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Animals and Science Fiction
Editors: Nora Castle, Giulia Champion
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41695-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41694-1Published: 23 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41697-2Due: 23 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41695-8Published: 22 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6338
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6346
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 373
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Fiction, Contemporary Literature, Literary Theory, Popular Culture , History, general, Postcolonial Philosophy