Sarah E. McFarland is Professor of Literature and Theory at Northwestern State University of Louisiana, USA. She has published widely in the environmental humanities and critical animal studies, and she co-edited Animals and Agency: An Interdisciplinary Exploration (2008).

Sarah McFarland’s Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Extinction is another compelling addition to [its] field. What marks this book as special is how McFarland pays close attention to the most dismal and excruciating aspects of such fictions ... McFarland’s skill in guiding us through the limits of the liveable and the readable enables a reckoning with what she identifies as the undoing of “human exceptionalism” (p. 3).

• Acknowledgements1 The World Unravels2 Irreducible Entanglement: “All Was Kith and Kin” in Life of Pi3 The Last Stragglers of Ecocollapse: “Diary of an Interesting Year” and The Road4 Bearing Witness: Narrating Human Extinction in The Dog Stars5 Loose EndsBibliographyIndex

Sarah E. McFarland is Professor of Literature and Theory at Northwestern State University of Louisiana, USA. She has published widely in the environmental humanities and critical animal studies, and she co-edited Animals and Agency: An Interdisciplinary Exploration (2008).

Sarah McFarland’s Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Extinction is another compelling addition to [its] field. What marks this book as special is how McFarland pays close attention to the most dismal and excruciating aspects of such fictions ... McFarland’s skill in guiding us through the limits of the liveable and the readable enables a reckoning with what she identifies as the undoing of “human exceptionalism” (p. 3).

• Acknowledgements1 The World Unravels2 Irreducible Entanglement: “All Was Kith and Kin” in Life of Pi3 The Last Stragglers of Ecocollapse: “Diary of an Interesting Year” and The Road4 Bearing Witness: Narrating Human Extinction in The Dog Stars5 Loose EndsBibliographyIndex

Sarah E. McFarland is Professor of Literature and Theory at Northwestern State University of Louisiana, USA. She has published widely in the environmental humanities and critical animal studies, and she co-edited Animals and Agency: An Interdisciplinary Exploration (2008).

Sarah McFarland’s Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Extinction is another compelling addition to [its] field. What marks this book as special is how McFarland pays close attention to the most dismal and excruciating aspects of such fictions ... McFarland’s skill in guiding us through the limits of the liveable and the readable enables a reckoning with what she identifies as the undoing of “human exceptionalism” (p. 3).

• Acknowledgements1 The World Unravels2 Irreducible Entanglement: “All Was Kith and Kin” in Life of Pi3 The Last Stragglers of Ecocollapse: “Diary of an Interesting Year” and The Road4 Bearing Witness: Narrating Human Extinction in The Dog Stars5 Loose EndsBibliographyIndex