Jeff VanderMeer’s Area X is a strange zone of transformation and transition. How does one cope with living between the binary of humanity and nature? Is it better to resist or assimilate to environmental change? What does VanderMeer’s novel tell us about the limits of science and human control? Can “annihilation” also be an act of reclamation?
Join Maria Elena (aka M.E.), Nicole, Reggie, Amal, and Francisco – – five students from “Reading Literature in the Age of Trump,” an undergraduate course at San Francisco State University – – as they discuss Jeff VanderMeer’s 2014 novel, Annihilation.
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