Contents
Preface
Introduction: Face
1. Future
2. Life
3. Planet
4. Birth
5. Labor
Conclusion: Child
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Rebekah Sheldon is assistant professor of English at Indiana
University Bloomington.
"Across literature and film, theory and technology, abundance and
scarcity, Rebekah Sheldon shows us how The Child is being destroyed
at the same time it is being made as a term of cultural
currency. Her concept of ‘new enclosures of reproduction’ is
destined to become key in our future thinking about childhood and
the Anthropocene by defining our most certain drive toward
apocalypse for the sake of the child."—Steven Bruhm, University of
Western Ontario"A powerful theorization of the Anthropocene,
Rebekah Sheldon’s work refuses a discourse predicated on the narrow
question of human survival and compels us to recognize another kind
of vitality outside the management strategies of a biopolitical
order she calls ‘somatic capitalism.’"—Sherryl Vint, University of
California, Riverside
"More than just a commentary on contemporary dystopian fiction, The
Child to Come can also be accurately described as a work of
critical theory, casting light on the future of contemporary social
life. Children’s literature specialists, critics of the
biopolitical, Anthroposcenesters, and science-fiction scholars will
want to take notes as they read Sheldon’s compact and rich
book."—Science Fiction Studies"Her chapters trace the omnipresent
figure of the child between novels and world, between fiction and
fact, and use literature as a proxy for culture, as a means to
understand what we do when we figure the child, reproduction, and
the future."—The Goose"Brilliant meditation."—Los Angeles Review of
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