Surreal Entanglements

Louise Economides is a professor of English and director of the Literature and the Environment program at the University of Montana, Missoula. Laura Shackelford is Associate Professor of English and founding Director of the Center for Engaged Storycraft at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Introduction:

Weird Ecology: VanderMeer’s Anthropocene Fiction

Louise Economides and Laura Shackelford

Node 1: More-than-Human Traces and Symbiotic Monsters – A Posthumanist Politics for the Anthropocene Era?

Chapter 1:

Home on the Strange: The Queering of Place in VanderMeer’s Borne Books

Louise Economides

Chapter 2:

Acceptance and Continuation: Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy and Hope in the Anthropocene

Arwen Spicer

Chapter 3:

Entangled Care and the Trouble with Making Family in Borne

Samuel Gormley

Chapter 4:

‘Love Your Monsters:’ Anthropocene Discourse and Green" Psychoanalysis in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne and The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

Sydney Lane

Node 2: Materialist Speculation after Quantum Physics

Chapter 5:

Microbiology and Microcosms: Ecosystem and the Body in Shriek: An Afterword

Octavia Cade

Chapter 6:

Strange Matters: More-than-Human Entanglements and Topological Spacetimes

Laura Shackelford

Chapter 7:

Street Smarts for Smart Streets

Rob Coley

Chapter 8:

Tentacular Narrative Webs: Unthinking Humans in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy

Dunja M. Mohr

Node 3: Aesthetics of Perception and Genre Sense; or Politics Made Perceptible

Chapter 9:

Genre Tentacular: Area X and the Southern Neogothic

Lee Rozelle

Chapter 10:

‘Another World, another life:’ Humans, Monsters, and Politics in Predator: South China Sea

Benjamin J. Robertson

Chapter 11:

Can You Describe Its Form? Annihilation and Cinematic Adaptation

Cameron Kunzelman

Chapter 12:

Love in the Time of the Anthropocene: A Conversation Between Alison Sperling and Jeff VanderMeer

Alison Sperling