Speculative Flesh Ecologies — Flesh, Indistinction and Speculative Fiction

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Mae'r astudiaeth hon yn archwilio diddordeb ffuglen ddychmygol yr unfed ganrif ar hugain yn y gwahaniaeth rhwng cnawd dynol a chnawd an-ddynol.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

This study explores twenty-first-century speculative fiction's interest in the indistinction of human and nonhuman flesh.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Abstract Acknowledgements Declaration Introduction Some Strange Planetary Oven An Edible Creature Speculative Flesh Ecologies Fleshing out the Field: Speculative/Flesh/Ecologies Fictional Slipperiness A Life with Cibi “We Wouldn’t Ever Eat Anybody, Would We?”: Human/Animal Flesh and Indistinction in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) and Joseph D’Lacey’s Meat (2008) Welcome to the Open Slaughterhouse Indistinction Red and Salty Meat Inside The Dog Could Catch Something to Eat I Am Meat We’ve Made Meat for Everyone! To Survive Without Causing Harm to Any Other Living Thing We Have Seen the Land Where Pain is Not Even a Memory “I Gave Them Fruit”: Plant Flesh and Grafts in Sue Burke’s Semiosis (2018) and M. R. Carey’s The Book of Koli (2020) Our Green Planet Grafts A Niche in this Ecology for Ourselves Before the Roots Went in Too Deep I Gave Them Fruit Our Green Planet “The Pigs Ate Everything”: Thing Flesh and Vital Materialism in Johanna Stoberock’s Pigs (2019) and Wu Ming-Yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes (2011) Plastic Islands Vibrant Matter Becoming Part of the Island She Felt Like She was Eating the World The Pigs Ate Everything Five Pigs Roamed Freely “Actual Real Proper Meat”: Cultured Flesh and Simulacra in Mat Blackwell’s Beef (2016) and Vina Jie-Min Prasad’s ‘A Series of Steaks’ (2017) The Future of Meat is Here Simulacra, Simulation, and Hyperreality Proper Meat Fake Beef Corpse Meat Purebred Hereford IT’S ALIVE A Happy Cow Corpse-Eating Guilt Conclusion Resurrected Meatballs The Future of Speculative Flesh Ecologies Bibliography

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Samantha Hind is an independent scholar and PhD graduate from the University of Sheffield. Her research explores ideas of flesh, conservation and technology in human/non-human relationships in contemporary speculative fiction.