Pinkus, Karen

Subsurface (Posthumanities)

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ISBN 13:: 9781517914790
author:: Pinkus, Karen
format:: Paperback
publisher:: University of Minnesota Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2023
Pages:: 240
Dimensions:: 21.4 x 13.8 x 1.6 centimetres (0
Genre:: Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, General,
Condition:: New
supplier_id:: 9
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Subsurface explores the intersection of literature and climate change by examining the buried origins of capitalist fantasies in texts from Edgar Allan Poe to Jules Verne.

The author, Karen Pinkus, draws on narrative theory, critical theory, geology, and climate policy to uncover how the subsurface has been a place of myth and stories of male voyages in the past, but is now increasingly tied to fossil fuels and emissions.

Through her analysis, Pinkus questions the certainty of comfortable narrative arcs and invites readers to reimagine literature with and against the figure of the geological column, and its relationship to extraction, burial, fossils, deep time, and speculative futurity.

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