The Dark Matter of Children's "Fantastika" Literature : Speculative Entanglements /

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Author / Creator:	Germaine, Chloe, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
Description:	1 online resource (256 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature.
Subject:	Children's stories, English -- History and criticism. Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English -- History and criticism. Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13486230

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ISBN:	9781350167049 9781350167032 9781350167018
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Summary:	"Following the 'material turn' in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with children's fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in the twenty-first century. It develops the concept of 'entanglement', which originated in twentieth-century quantum physics but has been applied to cultural critique, through a reading of Fantastika literature. It surveys a wide-raging scope of literary texts, covering the gothic, fantasy and other forms of speculative fiction, to argue that Fantastika positions entanglemet as an ethical imperative that transforms our imaginative relationship with materiality. In doing so, it synthesizes perspectives from a similarly diverse range of areas, including ecology, physics, anthropology, biology and literary studies to examine the storied matter of children's Fantastika as ground from which we might to begin to imagine an as-yet-unrealised future that addresses the problems of our present."--
Other form:	Print version: 9781350167018
Standard no.:	10.5040/9781350167049

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