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FANTASY AND MYTH IN THE ANTHROPOCENE ii 9781350204164_txt_print.indd 2 12-11-2021 18:34:09 FANTASY AND MYTH IN THE ANTHROPOCENE IMAGINING FUTURES AND DREAMING HOPE IN LITERATURE AND MEDIA Edited by Marek Oziewicz, Brian Attebery and Tereza Dědinová 9781350204164_txt_print.indd 3 17/09/2021 17:21:14 BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 29 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2022 Copyright © Marek Oziewicz, Brian Attebery, Tereza Deˇdinová and contributors, 2022 Marek Oziewicz, Brian Attebery, Tereza Deˇdinová and contributors have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Authors of this work. For legal purposes the Acknowledgments and Permissions on pages xi and xii constitute an extension of this copyright page. 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Title: Fantasy and myth in the Anthropocene : imagining futures and dreaming hope in literature and media / edited by Marek Oziewicz, Brian Attebery and Tereza Dedinová. Description: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021037301 (print) | LCCN 2021037302 (ebook) | ISBN 9781350203341 (hardback) | ISBN 9781350204164 (paperback) | ISBN 9781350203358 (ebook) | ISBN 9781350203365 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Fantasy fiction–History and criticism. | Future, The, in literature. | Ecocriticism. | Myth in literature. | Human ecology in literature. | Speculative fiction–History and criticism. | Young adult literature–History and criticism. 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To our beautiful planet and human capacity for loving care—the power that can make all the difference. vi 9781350204164_txt_print.indd 6 12-11-2021 18:34:09 CONTENTS List of Plates ix List of Figures x Acknowledgments xi Permissions xii List of Academic Contributors xiii List of Artists xvi Introduction: The Choice We Have in the Stories We Tell … Marek Oziewicz 1 Part I Trouble in the Air 13 1 Anthropos and the Air Brian Attebery 15 2 From the Third Age to the Fifth Season: Confronting the Anthropocene through Fantasy Brian Attebery 16 3 Who Knows Where the Time Goes? Nisi Shawl 26 4 Playing with the Trouble: Children and the Anthropocene in Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch Series Lindsay Burton 28 5 Rewrite Katherine Applegate 39 6 Staying with the Singularity: Nonhuman Narrators and more-than-Human Mythologies Alexander Popov 41 7 The Eye of the Story Joseph Bruchac / Nokidahozid 55 8 Fantasy for the Anthropocene: On the Ecocidal Unconscious, Planetarianism, and Imagination of Biocentric Futures Marek Oziewicz 58 9 AstroNuts, the Origin Story Jon Scieszka 70 Part II Dreaming the Earth 71 10 Anthropos and the Earth Brian Attebery 73 11 Embodying the Permaculture Story: Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching Series Tereza Dědinová 74 12 Where Is the Place for Seagrass and Weevils in Children’s Literature? Eliot Schrefer 88 13 Arboreal Magic and Kinship in the Chthulucene: Margaret Mahy’s Trees Melanie Duckworth 89 14 Just Imagine Barbara Henderson 101 Contents 15 From Portable Landscapes to Themed Thrill Rides: Rowling’s Heterotopic Hopescapes Stephanie J. Weaver 103 16 Does Fantasy Literature Have a Place in the Climate Change Crisis? Craig Russell 114 17 “The Earth is my home too, can’t I help protect it?”: Planetary Thinking, Queer Identities, and Environmentalism in The Legend of Korra, She-Ra, and Steven Universe Aneesh Barai 116 18 Celebrations of Resilience Elin Kelsey 130 Part III Visions in the Water 133 19 Anthropos and the Ocean Brian Attebery 135 20 Kim Stanley Robinson’s Case for Hope in New York 2140 John Rieder 136 21 Myth Makes Us See Adam Gidwitz 148 22 Sleeping with the Fishmen: Reimagining the Anthropocene through Oceanic-Chthonic Kinships Prema Arasu and Drew Thornton 150 23 Fish Girl’s Dilemma Donna Jo Napoli 161 24 From Culture Hero to Emissions Zero: Critiquing Maui’s Extractivist Mindset in Disney’s Moana Christopher D. Foley 163 25 Finding Balance and Hope in the Indigenous Past David Bowles 174 26 Reimagining Youth Relations with Moananuiākea (The Large, Expansive Ocean): Contemporary Niuhi Mo’olelo (Man-Eating Shark Stories) and Environmental Activism Caryn Lesuma 176 27 The Future That Has Yet to Be Imagined Shaun Tan 188 Part IV Playing with Fire 191 28 Anthropos and the Fire Brian Attebery 193 29 Convert or Kill: Disanthropocentric Systems and Religious Myth in Jemisin’s Broken Earth Derek J. Thiess 195 30 Reimaging the Upright Ape Jane Yolen 207 31 Myths of (Un)creation: Narrative Strategies for Confronting the Anthropocene Jacob Burg 208 32 The Stepping Stone, the Boulder, and the Star: A Fable for the Anthropocene Grace L. Dillon 219 33 On Monsters and Other Matters of Housekeeping: Reading Jeff VanderMeer with Donna Haraway and Ursula K. Le Guin Kim Hendrickx 221 34 The Seriousness of Writing Funny Molly B. Burnham 233 35 Literalizing Hyperobjects: On (mis)Representing Global Warming in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones Markus Laukkanen 235 Index 246 viii PLATES 9.1 AstroNuts, Museum feature Jon Scieszka 9.2 AstroNuts, Earth Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg 9.3 Collaging change Steven Weinberg 9.4 Together we sail Hatem Aly 27.1 Orca in the sky Shaun Tan 27.2 Eating local David Wiesner 27.3 Hope and curiosity Kate Samworth 27.4 Hope sails far Pavel Čech
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