Surreal Entanglements : Essays on Jeff VanderMeer’s Fiction (Paperback)

Introduction: Weird Ecology: VanderMeer’s Anthropocene Fiction Louise Economides and Laura Shackelford 　 Node 1: More-than-Human Traces and Symbiotic Monsters ? A Posthumanist Politics for the Anthropocene Era? 　 Chapter 1: Home on the Strange: The Queering of Place in VanderMeer’s Borne Books Louise Economides 　 Chapter 2: Acceptance and Continuation: Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy and Hope in the Anthropocene Arwen Spicer 　 Chapter 3: Entangled Care and the Trouble with Making Family in　Borne Samuel Gormley 　 Chapter 4: ‘Love Your Monsters:’ Anthropocene Discourse and Green" Psychoanalysis in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne and The Strange Bird: A Borne Story Sydney Lane 　 Node 2: Materialist Speculation after Quantum Physics 　 Chapter 5: Microbiology and Microcosms: Ecosystem and the Body in Shriek: An Afterword Octavia Cade 　 Chapter 6: Strange Matters: More-than-Human Entanglements and Topological Spacetimes Laura Shackelford 　 Chapter 7: Street Smarts for Smart Streets Rob Coley 　 Chapter 8: Tentacular Narrative Webs: Unthinking Humans in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy Dunja M. Mohr 　 Node 3: Aesthetics of Perception and Genre Sense; or Politics Made Perceptible 　 Chapter 9: Genre Tentacular: Area X and the Southern Neogothic Lee Rozelle 　 Chapter 10: ‘Another World, another life:’ Humans, Monsters, and Politics in Predator: South China Sea Benjamin J. Robertson 　 Chapter 11: Can You Describe Its Form? Annihilation and Cinematic Adaptation Cameron Kunzelman 　 Chapter 12: Love in the Time of the Anthropocene: A Conversation Between Alison Sperling and Jeff VanderMeer Alison Sperling