Apocalypse . . . Eventually: Trans-Corporeality and Slow Horror in M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts

This article examines M. R. Carey’s 2014 zombie apocalypse novel The Girl with All the Gifts through ecofeminist concept of trans-corporeality as defined by Stacy Alaimo in Bodily Natures. heroine Melanie showcases how humans can re-conceptualize their relationship to a more-than-human, or natural, world that is both exterior self and always-already part fungal agency. Indeed, continuously engages intimate human-environment interconnections that, horrific capacities, are meant inspire readers reflect upon own enmeshment larger, material world. novel’s use real fungus Ophiocordyceps more-than-human agent inspires transformation into zombies provides vision for more ethically relate, posthuman manners, Finally, this considers depiction slow horror, gradual descent apocalypse.