Climate Change Fictions

Representations of Global Warming in American Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvAntonia Mehnert

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This book highlights the importance of the cultural sphere, and in particular literature, in response and discussion with the unprecedented phenomenon known as climate change.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-04-22
Mått148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt346 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiteratures, Cultures, and the Environment
Antal sidor254
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319820842

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Antonia Mehnert currently works in environmental communication and consulting for a Munich-based environmental project agency. She received her PhD from the Rachel Carson Center and the American Studies Department at the University of Munich, Germany. Her research interests include ecocriticism and climate change, Chicana/o studies, and the postcolonial Caribbean. She has published various articles on climate change fiction in academic, as well as non-academic journals, and is the co-founder of EASLCE’s postgraduate forum “Environment, Literature, Culture” (ELC).

Introduction: Imagining Climate Change Futures.- Chapter 1: Climate Change Fictions in Context: Socio-Politics, Environmental Discourse and Literature.- Chapter 2: Scaling Climate Change—The Transformation of Place in Climate Change Fiction.- Chapter 3: Reimagining Time in Climate Change Fiction.- Chapter 4: Manufactured Uncertainty: Climate Risks in an Age of “Heightened Security”.- Chapter 5: Climate Cultures in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital Trilogy.- Chapter 6: Representing the Underrepresented: Climate Justice and Future Responsibilities in Climate Change Fiction.- Conclusion: Climate Change Fiction and the Introduction of New Genres in Environmental Crisis Discourse.- Notes.- Bibliography.