Description:
Monika Kaup pairs post-apocalyptic novels by Margaret Atwood, José Saramago, Octavia Butler and Cormac McCarthy with new realist theories from Bruno Latour, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Markus Gabriel, Jean-Luc Marion and Alphonso Lingis.
Brief description: Monika Kaup is Professor of English at the University of Washington. She is the author of Neobaroque in the Americas: Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film (University of Virginia Press 2012) and she is co-editor of Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest (Duke University Press 2010).
Review Quotes:
Presenting a context-dependent realism, Monika Kaup brings together theory and fiction to get real about ecology and the future. Philosophical inquiries and post-apocalyptic writings collide in engaging prose and exciting ideas that open up new horizons for thinking, feeling, and acting after the end of the world.
--Sam Mickey, University of San Francisco