Edwards, Caroline (2019) All aboard for Ararat: islands in contemporary flood fiction. ASAP/Journal 4 (1), pp. 211-238. ISSN 2381-4705.
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Abstract
One of the most striking things about speculative literature of the twenty-first century has been its increasingly focused interest in imagining impending disaster: from the escalating likelihood of biblical deluge on a planetary scale to looming ecocatastrophes of drought and desertification, the return of "last man" narratives of global viral pandemic, as well as the collapse of oil-based petroconsumption. Analyses of fiction that deal with climate change (what has been called climate change fiction, or "cli-fi," among the online commentariat) have started to recognize a fundamental shift from literary fiction's preoccupation with characters' psychological interiority, to the grander-scale attempt to understand the place of human subjects within a broader ecosphere at a time of rapid change.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Contemporary Literature, Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Caroline Edwards |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Aug 2018 12:22 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:44 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/23466 |
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