ELOPE, 2018 Margaret Atwood’s short prose piece, “Three Novels I Won’t Write Soon,” poses a conundrum for anyone seeking to place it within a genre. With features of science fiction, speculative fiction and a postmodern prose poem, the text addresses the topic of ...
Michelle Gadpaille
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Geologies of Finitude: The Deep Time of Twenty-First-Century Catastrophe in Don DeLillo’s Point Omegaand Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia [PDF]
, 2016 The twenty-first century has seen a transformation of twentieth-century narrative and historical discourse. On the one hand, the Cold War national fantasy of mutually assured destruction has multiplied, producing a diverse array of apocalyptic visions ...
Bradley J. Fest, Bradley J. Fest
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Reworlding Together: Learning with Place through Cli-Fi Urban Role-Play
Australian Journal of Environmental EducationReworlding (Haraway, 2016, Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Durham, Duke University Press) underscores the significance of Indigenous cosmologies that perceive time and place through circular, recursive and reciprocal ...
Troy Innocent
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Containment and nuclear memory in contemporary climate change fiction [PDF]
, 2020 Confronted with the global existential threat of climate change, human subjects in the Anthropocene must grapple with a parallel teleological crisis: how do we direct ourselves as individuals and collectives in the face of an ongoing global catastrophe ...
Ramuglia, River
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SLOW VIOLENCE, CLI-FI, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHANGE HOW BIPOC FUTURISMS PROMOTE ACTIVISM [PDF]
, 2022 The threat of anthropogenic climate change is discussed almost exclusively in terms of “scientific” data to the exclusion of the humanities. For some worlds, climate change has already destroyed their ways of life and forced them to adapt.
Baeza, Francisco
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Anthropocentric Landscape and Soundscape in Cli-Fi Extrapolations TV Series
Przegląd KulturoznawczyThis paper aims to explore the detrimental consequences of anthropocentric perspectives on the environment as portrayed in the television series Extrapolations.
Ebrahim Barzegar
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Charged Readings and Momentous Expectations: The Curious Case of Climate Change Fiction
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century WritingsThis article traces the inception, reception, and study of climate change fiction to show how profoundly awareness of anthropogenic climate crisis, and of the severity and scale of the collective human impact on the planet, have changed ways of reading ...
Hanne Bolze
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SociopoétiquesFrom Homer’s Odyssey to contemporary climate fiction, the perception of natural disasters within literature allows the analysis of some social reflection of the place that human beings hold in the cosmos. Through the reading of the Odyssey and three
Sofia MAVROGIANNI
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Climate Fiction in Nordic Landscapes
Barnelitterært Forskningstidsskrift, 2019 This article analyses two climate fictions set in Nordic landscapes: Jostein Gaarder’s The World According to Anna (2015) and Memories of Water (2014) by Emma Itäranta, both classed as young adult fiction. The article draws on ecocritical perspectives to
Lykke Guanio-Uluru
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Writing Our Climate Future: A “Cli-Fi” Writing Process for Students in the Anthropocene [PDF]
, 2022 Like Covid, climate change causes many students to feel afraid and powerless. By studying infographics on climate change, we can help students develop their 21st century literacy skills while educating them about climate change and its solutions.
Falkner, Shannon
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