New article on rhetorics of extinction & de-extinction
Dominic O’Key, post-doctoral research fellow with the University of Leeds team on the EXTINCT project, has published a new article proposing that the novel Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha by Mahasweta Devi works through literary de-extinction, which he defines as “any creative attempt to reimagine extinct species within the here and now a text’s narrative time.” Read his article here.