Dystopias And Utopias On Earth And Beyond (Routledge Studies In World Literatures And The Environment)

Foreword: Ecofeminism and speculative fiction : a writer's reflection / Vandana Singh -- Preface / Douglas A. Vakoch -- Introduction / Patrick D. Murphy -- Climate change and future Earth dystopias. An ecofeminist reading of Octavia Butler's Parable of the sower and Parable of talents / Hatice Övgü Tüzün -- An ecofeminist treatment of nourishment and feeding in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy / Debra Wain -- Margaret Atwood's ecodystopic SF : approaching ethics, gender, and ecology / Izabel F. O. Brandão and Ildney Cavalcant -- Ecofeminist (post) Ice-Age ecotopia : Doris Lessing's 'Mara and Dann' books / Julia Kuznetsk -- Ecofeminist climate fiction : Merlinda Bobis's Locust girl / Iris Ralph -- Utopias on Earth and beyond. 'Extinction is forever' : ecofeminism and apocalypse in Louise Lawrence's young adult short fiction / Michelle Deininger and Gemma Scammel -- Ecofeminist utopian speculations in Henrietta Augusta Dugdale's A Few hours in a far-off age (1883), Catherine Helen Spence's A Week in the future (1888), Mary Anne Moore-Bentley's A Woman of Mars; or, Australia's enfranchised woman (1901), and Joyce Vincent's The Celestial hand: a sensational story / Nicole Anae -- Alien ecofeminist societies : sharers in Joan Slonczewski's A Door into ocean / Irene Sanz Alonso -- Re-reading Ursula K. Le Guin's SF : the Daoist yin principle in ecofeminist novels / Amy Chan Kit-sze -- Keeping grows; giving flows : reciprocal relations and the gift of Always coming home / Karl Zuelke -- 'The revolt of the mother' : romanticizing nature and rejecting science in Sally Miller Gearhart's The Wanderground and other feminist utopias / Christy Tidwell.

• | Author: Douglas A. Vakoch
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jan 09, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 198 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0367716291
• | ISBN-13: 9780367716295