The American Climate Emergency Narrative

Origins, Developments and Imaginary Futures
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-60644-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 423 g

Reihe: New Comparisons in World Literature

reveals how much of what has been called "climate fiction" casts ecological breakdown as an emergency for American capitalist modernity rather than for the planet. The book traces the origins of this narrative back to the arrival of settler capitalism in America, when the understanding of the planet and its people as extractable resources was established. Since then, this narrative has elided the violent history of the climate crisis while at the same time leveraging the military as a bulwark against the crises capitalism has caused, the people it has uprooted, even the ailing planet itself.

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Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Höglund, Johan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: The American Climate Emergency Narrative.- Chapter 2: Settler Capitalist Frontiers.- Chapter 3: Fossil Fictions.- Chapter 4: The Irradiated.- Chapter 5: Geopolitics.- Chapter 6: The Displaced.- Chapter 7: Ruins.- Chapter 8: Fallout Futures.

Über Autor(innen)

Johan Höglund is Professor of English and a member and former director of the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He is the author of and editor of several collections and special issues that investigate how popular culture narrates colonialism, neocolonialism, and extractive capitalism.