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The Noah Myth in Twenty-First-Century Cli-Fi Novels - Rewritings from a Drowning World (Hardcover)
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The Noah Myth in Twenty-First-Century Cli-Fi Novels - Rewritings from a Drowning World (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in English and American Literature and Culture
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Breaks new ground by both analyzing the literary qualities of four
recent rewritings of the Noah myth and contextualizing their
concern with climate change within the wider crises of the
Anthropocene. With the rise of concern about global warming in
recent years, climate-change fiction, or cli-fi, has become
increasingly important both as a publishing phenomenon and as an
area of academic study and research. Flood narratives have become a
subsection of cli-fi in their own right. This book proposes new
readings of four recent rewritings of the Noah myth, Odds Against
Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich, Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy,
When the Floods Came by Clare Morrall, and The Flood by Maggie Gee.
Helen E. Mundler's book takes into account the wealth of criticism
that has appeared on these texts in recent years, acknowledging
important contributions from critics including Adam Trexler,
Adeline Johns-Putra, and Astrid Bracke. However, her book's
strength is that it takes a new approach, going beyond the
topicality of the texts and treating them not just as ideological
statements but giving them their due as literary artifacts. While
the importance of climate change is beyond debate, this book takes
a more balanced approach that places it within a wider context of
the multiple crises of the Anthropocene.
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