Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown : Entangled Futurities (Paperback)

Part 1: Monsters and Monstrosity??1. “In the woods the Tox is still wild”: The EcoGothic in Rory Power’s Wilder Girls? 2. The Human/Un(human): Monster, Ecophobia, and the Posthuman Horror(scape) in Dibakar Banerjee’s “Monster,” Ghost Stories? 3. A Scourge Even Worse Than Disease: Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend as Pandemic Political Allegory??Part 2: Intersectional Critique??4. Fungal Imaginaries: The Reconfiguration of Post-Pandemic Society in Severance (2018) and The Last of Us (2023)??5. Five Hundred Years of Plague: Indigenous Apocalypse in Joca Reiners Terron’s Death and the Meteor (2019)? 6. Corruption and Cleansing: An Eco-Feminist Approach to the Nature/Culture Dichotomy in Naomi Novik’s Uprooted? 7. Through Currents of Contamination: The Failure of Immunizing Insularity in Sophie Mackintosh’s The Water Cure??Part 3: More-Than-Human Mutual Aid and Eco-Justice??8. Dystopian Prohibitions and Utopian Possibilities in Edmonton, Canada, at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic? 9. Affiliation as Environmental Justice in Three Climate Novels? 10. “A Vortex of Summons and Repulsion”: The Productive Abject, Posthumanisms, and the Weird in Charles Burns’ Black Hole (2005) ?11. (Un)Caring Borders: More-than-Human Solidarities in the Białowie?a Forest??Part 4: Creative Resistance and Utopian Glimmers??12. “Preservation is an Action, not a State”: DIY Utopian Enclaves and Ways Out of Post-Pandemic Surveillance Capitalism in Sarah Pinsker’s A Song for a New Day? 13. Pandemic Dramaturgy: Co-Designing the Performance Dying Together/Futures with the COVID-19 Virus? 14. Vitality of Non-Human Entities: Plagues and Pandemics as Hyperobjects in Defoe, Camus, and Pamuk? 15. World-Building Enactments of The School Strike Movements During the Pandemic: Reading Youth Climate Crisis Movements Through a Micro and Nano-Utopian Lens