The Dark Matter of Children’s 'Fantastika' Literature: Speculative Entanglements

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Dr Chloe Germaine (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Dr Lisa Sainsbury (University of Roehampton, UK)

The Dark Matter of Children’s 'Fantastika' Literature

Speculative Entanglements

Dr Chloe Germaine (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Dr Lisa Sainsbury (University of Roehampton, UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic
24 April 2025

Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature

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. Surveying a wide-ranging scope of literary texts, this book covers the gothic, fantasy, the Weird, and other forms of speculative fiction to argue that Fantastika positions entanglement as an ethical imperative that transforms our imaginative relationship with materiality. In so doing, it synthesizes perspectives from a similarly diverse range of areas, including ecology, physics, anthropology, and literary studies, to examine the storied matter of children’s Fantastika as ground from which we might begin to imagine an as-yet-unrealised future that addresses the problems of our present.

By: Dr Chloe Germaine (Manchester Metropolitan University UK)
Series edited by: Dr Lisa Sainsbury (University of Roehampton UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350417274
ISBN 10: 1350417270
Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 24 April 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: The ontoethics of entanglement in Fantastika 1. Occult materialism: The landscapes of classic fantasy 2. Animate worlds: Magical encounters in contemporary fantasy 3. Minds, machines, and ghosts: Consciousness in science fiction stories 4. Precarious interdependence: The oceans of the ecoweird 5. Speak for the trees: The material politics of climate futures 6. Postscript: Thoughts on the reading experiment Index

Chloé Germaine is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and a co-director of the Manchester Game Centre.

Reviews for The Dark Matter of Children’s 'Fantastika' Literature: Speculative Entanglements

[The Dark Matter of Children's Fantastika Literature] is a huge achievement: the culmination of the author’s immersion in a field for a significant time … It is refreshing to read a book that is determined to show how texts ‘matter’ in all senses of this word. [It] contributes to our field by reading ‘literary criticism, philosophy, and science through one another and through the novels’ it encounters. I enjoyed reading it very much. * The British Society for Literature and Science *