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• Title:
  Apocalypse . . . Eventually: Trans-Corporeality and Slow Horror in M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts
• Creator:
  Druzak, Courtney A.
• Contributor:
  DigiPen Institute of Technology, Redmond, WA;
  courtney.druzak@digipen.edu
• Description:
  This article examines M. R. Carey’s 2014 zombie apocalypse novel The Girl with All the Gifts through the ecofeminist concept of trans-corporeality as defined by Stacy Alaimo in Bodily Natures. Carey’s heroine Melanie showcases how humans can re-conceptualize their relationship to a more-than-human, or natural, world that is both exterior to the self and always-already a part of the self through fungal agency. Indeed, the novel continuously engages in intimate human-environment interconnections that, in their horrific capacities, are meant to inspire readers to reflect upon their own enmeshment in a larger, material world. The novel’s use of the real fungus Ophiocordyceps as the more-than-human agent that inspires the transformation of humans into zombies provides a vision for how humans can more ethically relate, in posthuman manners, to a more-than-human world. Finally, this article considers the novel as a depiction of slow horror, or a gradual descent into apocalypse.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2022.11.28;
  2022.11.24
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture;12
• Subject:
  environment;
  horror;
  trans-corporeality;
  apocalypse;
  zombie;
  The Girl with All the Gifts
• Identifier:
  2083-2931;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/44372 ;
  2084-574X;
  10.18778/2083-2931.12.18
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  image