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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bishop, Katherine E. (Editor ), Higgins, David (Editor ), Määttä, Jerry, 1979- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2020
Colección:New dimensions in science fiction.
Temas:
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