Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking With Embodied Estrangement

Kortekallio, Kaisa/ Hayler, Matthew (Editor)/ Sands, Danielle (Editor)/ Daigle, Christine (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1350296805 / ISBN 13: 9781350296800

Published by Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2025

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232 pages. 9.22x6.14x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking With Embodied Estrangement
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350296805
• ISBN 13: 9781350296800
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.33 kilograms

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Synopsis

Using an innovative multidisciplinary approach which is deeply invested in posthumanist thought, this book demonstrates how reading science fiction shapes the way we engage with lived environments. In dialogue with works by widely studied science fiction authors Greg Bear, N.K. Jemisin, Paolo Bacigalupi, and Jeff VanderMeer, it draws out how they function as mutant narratives. The first to systematically integrate three fields – feminist posthumanism, cognitive narratology, and science fiction studies – it offers a complex and coherent understanding of readerly experience as material, embodied, dynamic, and imaginative. Covering a range of urgent topics, including climate fiction, New Weird fiction, and new phenomenologies of the body, this book is the first to demonstrate how readerly experience acts as a site for ethical and political reorientation in the time of climate change.

About the Authors

Kaisa Kortekallio is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland, affiliated with the research consortium “Instrumental Narratives: The Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory” (2018–2022). She has published on contemporary ecological speculative fiction, New Weird fiction, more-than-human subjectivity, and narrative experientiality.

Matt Hayler is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Digital Cultures at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Danielle Sands is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Christine Daigle is Professor of Philosophy at Brock University, Canada, where she is also Director of the Posthumanism Research Institute.