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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Jeff VanderMeer"”.
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Lucille excerpts
… The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. The craft paper uses the book Wonderbook: The Illustrative Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction by Jeff VanderMeer to analyze how setting and character form worldbuilding within the three chosen novels. This thesis also contains …
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(De)composing Transhumanisms: Fungal and Trans Ecologies in Jeff VanderMeer's <em>Annihilation</em>
… the novel <em>Annihilation </em>(2014) by Jeff VanderMeer and situates the biologist’s transformation and transition in the book in a trans ecological framework. By expanding on foundational texts such as Jackson Jesse Nash’s “‘I Am Not Returning Home’: A Transgender Reading of Jeff …
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Gathering Futures: Speculative Fiction as a Map for Transforming the Climate Crisis
… Le Guin, Octavia E. Butler, N. K. Jemisin, and Jeff VanderMeer. By mapping the way characters adapt to new systems of living, my dissertation pivots to applied scholarship: can humanity implement these ideas and how? As the climate crisis defines this century, another ecocritical text is the …
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The Biologist and Area X as Posthuman Characters in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
… I examine the posthuman elements evident in Jeff VanderMeer’s novel Annihilation (2014). I explore the different techniques VanderMeer uses to blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman both in the main character, the biologist, as well as the setting of the novel, Area X. The analysis is …