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Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel (Hardcover)
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Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
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Climate change is becoming a major theme in the contemporary novel,
as authors reflect concerns in wider society. Given the urgency and
enormity of the problem, can literature (and the emotional response
it provokes) play a role in answering the complex ethical issues
that arise because of climate change? This book shows that
conventional fictional techniques should not be disregarded as
inadequate to the demands of climate change; rather, fiction has
the potential to challenge us, emotionally and ethically, to
reconsider our relationship to the future. Adeline Johns-Putra
focuses on the dominant theme of intergenerational ethics in the
contemporary novel: that is, the idea of our obligation to future
generations as a basis for environmental action. Rather than simply
framing parenthood and posterity in sentimental terms, the climate
change novel uses their emotional appeal to critique their
anthropocentricism and identity politics, offering radical
alternatives instead.
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