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Climate change fictions = representations of global warming in American literature /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Climate change fictions/ by Antonia Mehnert.
Reminder of title:	representations of global warming in American literature /
Author:	Mehnert, Antonia.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2016.,
Description:	x, 254 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	American literature - History and criticism. - 21st century -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40337-3
ISBN:	9783319403373

Climate change fictions = representations of global warming in American literature /
Mehnert, Antonia.

Climate change fictionsrepresentations of global warming in American literature /[electronic resource] :by Antonia Mehnert. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2016. - x, 254 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Literatures, cultures, and the environment. - Literatures, cultures, and the environment..

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.

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. Antonia Mehnert turns to a set of contemporary American works of fiction, reading them as a unique response to the challenges of representing climate change. She draws on "climate change fiction"-- texts dealing explicitly with anthropogenic climate change--and explores how these works convey climate change, deal with its challenging characteristics, and with what narrative techniques they ultimately participate in its communication. Indeed, a number of challenging traits make climate change a difficult issue to engage with including its slow and long temporal dimension, global scale, scientific controversy, and its disconnect between cause and effect. Considering such complexity and uncertainty at the source of climate change fictions, this book moves beyond a solely ecocritical analysis and shows how these climate change fictions constitute an insightful cultural repertoire valuable for discussion in the environmental humanities in general.

ISBN: 9783319403373

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-40337-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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American literature
--History and criticism.--21st century

LC Class. No.: PS366.E58 / M44 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 813.60936

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