Slime

'Arguing that as our ecophobic reactions to slime epitomize industrialized cultures' aversion to the natural world, Estok's new volume takes an intersectional, material ecofeminist, and ecocritical approach to slime, invoking perspectives from the primordial, elemental, and oceanic to the supernatural. Estok's widely-inclusive argument reveals slime's implicit associations with gender, race, class, and sexuality and offers new theoretical insights on slime and its history in horror narratives. The discussions about the responses of western cultures to slime are compelling and transdisciplinary. This is a must-read book for anyone in the Environmental Humanities.' Greta Gaard, Professor of English and Women/Gender/Sexuality Studies, University of Wisconsin, River Falls and author of Critical Ecofeminism (2017)
'Examining the secretions of our environmental imagination, Simon C. Estok engages with an element that is-as with all subsumed phenomena-always there and often overlooked. In a project that finds additional heft in this age of proliferating environmental crises, Estok's book, like its subject, seeps into the cracks of our cultural discourse, challenging conventional thinking and lending its unsettling texture to the slippery implications of environmental horror. From Coleridge to Sartre, Alien to Annihilation, Estok affirms the immediacy and consequence of the unctuous agency of slime.' Matthew Wynn Sivils, Professor of American Literature, Iowa State University