Death by landscape : essays
(2022)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
814.6/WILK,E

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 814.6/WILK,E Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Soft Skull, 2022
EDITION
First Soft Skull edition
DESCRIPTION

xii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781593767150, 1593767153 :, 1593767153, 9781593767150
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"This collection is about love, death, plants, and weird fiction. It takes its title from a Margaret Atwood story in which an adolescent girl seems to turn into a tree. It examines works by Doris Lessing, Jenny Hval, Anne Carson, Octavia Butler, Michelle Tea, Helen Phillips, Mark Fisher, Donna Haraway, and Jeff and Ann VanderMeer; it explores the erotics of compost, vampire-themed live-action roleplaying, intoxicated birds, medieval nuns, invasive spores, and solarpunk. The book asks: what kind of stories are being written that help us rethink our human-centric perspective of Earth? What kinds of narratives will make sense of the age of extinction? Death by Landscape creates a syllabus for feminist sci-fi and speculative fiction for our time"--

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