Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis

Introduction Sune Borkfelt and Matthias Stephan.-&nbsp; Part 1: Extinction.- Sara Schotland Do Humans Dream of Disappearing Insects?.- Nathaniel Otjen The Climate of Extinction: Resistant Multispecies Communities in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior and Richard Powers’s The Overstory.- Abby Schroering Playing Against Extinction: “The Dreaded Comparison” and the Distribution of the Human in Mlima’s Tale.- Brianna Burke Anthropomorphization and Conjoined Extinction in “The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang and Sila by Chantal Bilodeau.- Part 2: Climate Crisis.- Emily McAvan “Undoing Creation in the Climate Change Apocalypse: Animality and Evolution in Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God”.- Alex Lockwood Hopping, crawling, hiding: creatural movements on the path to climate emergency.- Markku Lehtimaki Polar Bears and Butterflies: Allegory, Science, and Embodiment in Climate Change Fiction.- Elana Santana Bodies Tell Stories: Race, Species, and Climate Change in Jesmyn Ward’s novel, Salvage the Bones.- Anastassiya Adrianova A Spokesbear for Climate Crisis? The Role of Zoos in Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear.- Part 3: Posthuman.- Dolly Jørgensen Resurrecting Species through Robotics: Animal Extinction and Deextinction in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.- Aaron Van Neste Alien Oceans as Climate Salvation: Finding Hope in the Deep Blue Unknown.- Daniel Bedggood Ecocrises and Posthuman-Animal Futures in Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl and Schoen’s Barsk.<p></p>