The Dark Matter of Children's 'Fantastika' Literature

Name: The Dark Matter of Children's 'Fantastika' Literature
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
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By Chloe Germaine

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"Following the 'material turn' in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with children's fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in the 21st century. It develops the concept of 'entanglement', which originated in 20th century quantum physics but has been applied to cultural critique, through a reading of Fantastika literature. It surveys a wide-raging scope of literary texts, covering the gothic, fantasy and other forms of speculative fiction, to argue that Fantastika positions entanglemet as an ethical imperative that transforms our imaginative relationship with materiality. In doing so, it synthesizes perspectives from a similarly diverse range of areas, including ecology, physics, anthropology, biology and literary studies to examine the storied matter of children's Fantastika as ground from which we might to begin to imagine an as-yet-unrealised future that addresses the problems of our present"--

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 232
Release Date:: 2025-04-24
Publication Date:: 2025-04-24
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1350417270
ISBN13:: 9781350417274
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 360 g
Height:: 156 cm
Width:: 234 cm
Thickness:: 13 cm

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