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Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis: The Industrial Revolution to the Present
by Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis: The Industrial Revolution to the Present
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Concentrating on a powerful, emerging genre, Tatiana Konrad's Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis provides a survey of popular narratives that further our understanding of climate change in contemporary fiction. Konrad advocates for the expansion and redefinition of the cli-fi genre and argues that industrial fiction from the nineteenth century is the first example of climate change fiction. Tracing the ways through which cli-fi outlines a history of our modern ecocultural crisis, this book demonstrates how the genre employs four major thematic clusters to achieve this narrative: weather, science, religion, and place.
Focusing on a diverse range of issues, including fossil fuels, cheap energy, the intricacies of human-more-than-human relationships, and postcolonial geographies, Konrad illustrates how cli-fi transcends mere storytelling. The genre ultimately emerges as an important means to forecast, imagine, and contemplate climatic events.
The book invites a broadening of the environmental humanities discourse, asking readers not only to deepen their understanding of the current climate crisis, but also to consider how cli-fi culture can be viewed as an effective method to address climate change.
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- University of Nevada Pres Brand
- Sep 24, 2024 Pub Date:
- 9781647791599 ISBN-13:
- 1647791596 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 9 in * 0.71 in * 6 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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