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11%OFFRebekah Sheldon - The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe - 9780816689880 - V9780816689880
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The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe

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Description for The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe Paperback. Num Pages: 195 pages. BIC Classification: PDA; RNR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 214 x 16. Weight in Grams: 298.
Generation Anthropocene. Storms of My Grandchildren. Our Children's Trust. Why do these and other attempts to imagine the planet's uncertain future return us-again and again-to the image of the child? In The Child to Come, Rebekah Sheldon demonstrates the pervasive conjunction of the imperiled child and the threatened Earth and blisteringly critiques the logic of catastrophe that serves as its motive and its method. Sheldon explores representations of this perilous future and the new figurations of the child that have arisen in response to it. Analyzing catastrophe discourse from the 1960s to the present-books by Joanna ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
195
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816689880
SKU
V9780816689880
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About Rebekah Sheldon
Rebekah Sheldon is assistant professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington.

Reviews for The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe
More than just a commentary on contemporary dystopian fiction, The Child to Come can also be accurately described as a work of critical theory, casting light on the future of contemporary social life. Children's literature specialists, critics of the biopolitical, Anthroposcenesters, and science-fiction scholars will want to take notes as they read Sheldon's compact and rich book. -Science Fiction Studies ... Read more

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