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Ecology without Civilization: Traumatic Restoration in VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy

Jack Dudley
English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 91–108.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-9277293
Published: 01 October 2021
...Jack Dudley Abstract While Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy has been read through the uncanny human traumas and tropes of “contamination” in its first novel, Annihilation , the trilogy’s radical ecological thought emerges more clearly through cosmic and transformative trauma in the final...
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Trauma and Horror: Anguish and Transfiguration

Kelly Hurley
English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 1–8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-9277216
Published: 01 October 2021
... world. But novels like Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy of New Weird novels, Jack Dudley argues, reframe the vocabulary of trauma theory—breach, rupture, the uncanny return of the traumatic-repressed in defamiliarized form—in nonanthropocentric terms. The strangely beautiful new ecosystem...
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