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Informationen zum Autor Chloé Germaine is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and a co-director of the Manchester Game Centre. Lisa Sainsbury is Director of the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature, University of Roehampton, UK. Klappentext 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 21st century. It develops the concept of entanglement, which originated in 20th-century quantum physics but has been applied to cultural critique, through a reading of Fantastika literature. Surveying a wide-ranging scope of literary texts, this book covers the gothic, fantasy, the Weird, and other forms of speculative fiction to argue that Fantastika positions entanglement as an ethical imperative that transforms our imaginative relationship with materiality. In so doing, it synthesizes perspectives from a similarly diverse range of areas, including ecology, physics, anthropology, and literary studies, to examine the storied matter of children's Fantastika as ground from which we might begin to imagine an as-yet-unrealised future that addresses the problems of our present. Vorwort Drawing on perspectives from science, philosophy and ecology, this book examines the concept of materiality through readings of contemporary Fantastika literature written for children and young adults. Zusammenfassung 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 21st century. It develops the concept of entanglement, which originated in 20th-century quantum physics but has been applied to cultural critique, through a reading of Fantastika literature. Surveying a wide-ranging scope of literary texts, this book covers the gothic, fantasy, the Weird, and other forms of speculative fiction to argue that Fantastika positions entanglement as an ethical imperative that transforms our imaginative relationship with materiality. In so doing, it synthesizes perspectives from a similarly diverse range of areas, including ecology, physics, anthropology, and literary studies, to examine the storied matter of children’s Fantastika as ground from which we might begin to imagine an as-yet-unrealised future that addresses the problems of our present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The ontoethics of entanglement in Fantastika1. Occult materialism: The landscapes of classic fantasy2. Animate worlds: Magical encounters in contemporary fantasy3. Minds, machines, and ghosts: Consciousness in science fiction stories4. Precarious interdependence: The oceans of the ecoweird5. Speak for the trees: The material politics of climate futures6. Postscript: Thoughts on the reading experimentIndex...
