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Plants in science fiction : speculative vegetation /
Plants in Science Fiction, the first-ever volume on plants (and fungi) in science fiction, allows us to speculate further on what - or who - plant life may be while exploring how we understand ourselves in relation to the complex world of flora.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press,
2020
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| Colección: | New dimensions in science fiction.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Series Editors' Preface
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributor Biographies
- Introduction
- Part 1: Abjection
- 1. Weird Flora: Plant Life in the Classic Weird Tale
- 2. 'Bloody unnatural brutes': Anthropomorphism, Colonialism and the Return of the Repressed in John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids
- 3. Botanical Tentacles and the Chthulucene
- Part 2: Affinity
- 4. Between the Living and the Dead: Vegetal Afterlives in Evgenii Iufit and Vladimir Maslov's Silver Heads
- 5. Vegetable Love: Desire, Feeling and Sexuality in Botanical Fiction
- 6. Alternative Reproduction: Plant-time and Human/Arboreal Assemblages in Holdstock and Han
- Part 3: Accord
- 7. Sunlight as a Photosynthetic Information Technology: Becoming Plant in Tom Robbins's Jitterbug Perfume
- 8. The Question of the Vegetal, the Animal, the Archive in Kathleen Ann Goonan's Queen City Jazz
- 9. Queer Ingestions: Weird and Sporous Bodies in Jeff VanderMeer's Fiction
- 10. The Botanical Ekphrastic and Ecological Relocation
- Selected Bibliography
- Notes