None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer Contributor(s): Robertson, Benjamin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1517902932 ISBN-13: 9781517902933 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: November 2018 |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy - Social Science | Popular Culture |
Dewey: 813.54 |
LCCN: 2018008960 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" L (0.65 lbs) 208 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/24/2018 |
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Publisher Description: How the otherworldly worlds created by the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy speak to--and even affect--our own In the first book-length study of this provocative writer, Benjamin J. Robertson focuses on the three major series that have propelled VanderMeer to prominence (his Vennis fictions, Ambergris novels, and Southern Reach Trilogy) as well as his recent stand-alone novel Borne. Most salient for Robertson is how VanderMeer grapples with the transformation of human meaning and being in the contemporary moment. None of This Is Normal reveals how VanderMeer creates fictions that directly address our Anthropocene epoch, in which humanity must reckon with the unprecedented nature of its impact on the environment and with the consequent obsolescence of its methods of representing itself in this altered world. In Robertson's reading it becomes startlingly clear that certain fiction, especially when willing to abandon humanist assumptions about history, has the power to not simply show us a world "out there" but to actively participate in that world. As realist fiction and even science fiction conventionally reduce the scale and complexity of the Anthropocene to human-sized dimensions, None of This Is Normal shows how VanderMeer's work conjures what Robertson calls a "fantastic materiality" a reality that stands apart from us as a model of thinking, irreducible to our own. |
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