The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate

ISBN-13: 9781009060813 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 362 str.

Adeline Johns-Putra; Kelly Sultzbach

Opis

This volume unfolds the complex relationship between literature and climate by uniquely illuminating historical complexity, diverse viewpoints, and emerging issues.

Recenzje

'Scholars and activists interested in the possibilities of recent cli-fi and related genres will find these essays helpful … Recommended.' J. Bilbro, Choice

Spis treści

Introduction Adeline Johns-Putra and Kelly Sultzbach; Part I. Historical Shifts in Climate Consciousness: 1. Seasonal processions Sarah Dimick; 2. Literal and literary atmospheres Thomas H. Ford; 3. Weathers of body and world: Reading difference in literary atmospheres before climate change Jennifer Mae Hamilton; Part II. Current Issues in Climate Change Criticism: 4. Scales: Climate versus embodiment Derek Woods; 5. Capitalist cultures: The taste of oil Elizabeth Mazzolini; 6. Animals and extinction Fiona Probyn-Rapsey; 7. Climate justice and literatures of the global south Chitra Sankaran; Part III. Ways of Telling Climate Stories: 8. Climate theatre: Enacting possible futures Theresa J. May; 9. Digital Cli-Fi: Human stories of climate in online and social media John Parham; 10. Climate on screen: From doom and disaster to ecotopian visions Alexa Weik von Mossner; Part IV. Dialogic Perspectives on Emerging Questions: Science Fiction and Future Fantasies; 11. Ice-sheet collapse and the consensus apocalypse in the science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson Gerry Canavan; 12. Solarpunk Gregory Lynall; Collective Climate Action; 13. Indigenous and black feminist knowledge-production, speculative science stories, and climate change literature Shelley Streeby; 14. More-than-human collectives in richard powers' the overstory and vandana singh's 'entanglement' Kelly Sultzbach; Love Letters to the Planet; 15. Meteorology of form Thomas Bristow; 16. Perspective-taking, empathy, and virtuality in Jorie Graham's fast Isabel Galleymore; Diverse Indigenous Voices on Climate; 17. Climate change and indigenous sovereignty in pacific islanders' writing Hsinya Huang; 18. Literary responses to indigenous climate justice and the canadian settler-state Jenny Kerber and Cheryl Lousley; Redefining 'the Real'; 19. Transtextual realism for the climatological collective Adeline Johns-Putra; 20. Critical Climate Irrealism Sam Solnick.