| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 260 pages) |
| Series |
Under the sign of nature: explorations in environmental humanities |
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Under the sign of nature.
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| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Class Structure and Resource Extraction -- Hadestown and Other Myths for the Anthropocene: Company Towns and Proletarian Traditions in US Climate Fiction -- Burnout: Cli-Fi and Exhaustion -- Resource Utopia and Dystopia: Excavating Class in Afrofuturist Cli-Fi Film -- Dreaming a Decolonized Climate: Indigenous Technologies and Relations of Class and Kinship in Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves -- Part II: Class Differentiation and Climate Risk |
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Climate-Change Fiction and Poverty Studies: Kingsolver's Flight Behavior, Diaz's "Monstro," and Bacigalupi's "The Tamarisk Hunter" -- Learning to Survive: Place-Based Education in Strange as This Weather Has Been and Parable of the Sower -- Settler Apocalypses: Race, Class, and the Erasure of Indigenous Resilience in Alaskan Cli-Fi -- Black: A Speculative Almanac for the End of the World -- Part III: Class Privilege and Climate Anxiety -- Class and Revolution in the Climate Fictions of Kim Stanley Robinson: Transition to Postcapitalism |
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Heartland of Darkness: Nostalgia and Class in the Climate Fiction of Paolo Bacigalupi -- Whose Odds?: The Absence of Climate Justice in American Climate Fiction of the 2000s and 2010s -- Cli-Fi and the Crisis of the Middle Class -- Homelessness in Lauren Groff's Florida Fiction: Climate Change and Displacement -- Epilogue: What Has Changed since Anthropocene Fictions? -- Contributors -- Index -- Recent books in the series |
| Summary |
"The essays in this collection analyze the complex interplays between climate change and inequalities of wealth and power in best-selling popular novels, science fiction titles, literary novels, Hollywood films, and Broadway plays, among other forms"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 12, 2023) |
| Subject |
Climatic changes in literature.
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Social justice in literature.
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American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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American fiction
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Climatic changes in literature
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Social justice in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rosenthal, Debra J., 1964- editor.
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Molesky, Jason de Lara, 1985- editor.
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| LC no. |
2023018068 |
| ISBN |
9780813950266 |
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0813950260 |
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