Surreal Entanglements
Essays on Jeff VanderMeer’s Fiction
(Author) Louise EconomidesIntroduction: 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? -- Home on the Strange: The Queering of Place in VanderMeer's Borne Books / Louise Economides -- Acceptance and Continuation: Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy and Hope in the Anthropocene / Arwen Spicer -- Entangled Care and the Trouble with Making Family in Borne / Samuel Gormley -- '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 -- Microbiology and Microcosms: Ecosystem and the Body in Shriek: An Afterword / Octavia Cade -- Strange Matters: More-than-Human Entanglements and Topological Spacetimes / Laura Shackelford -- Street Smarts for Smart Streets / Rob Coley -- 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 -- Genre Tentacular: Area X and the Southern Neogothic / Lee Rozelle -- 'Another World, another life:' Humans, Monsters, and Politics in Predator: South China Sea / Benjamin J. Robertson -- Can You Describe Its Form? Annihilationand Cinematic Adaptation / Cameron Kunzelman -- Love in the Time of the Anthropocene: A Conversation Between Alison Sperling and Jeff VanderMeer / Alison Sperling.