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020			_a9781032726946
082			_a809.9336 DUF-E
100			_aDuffy, Helena
245			_aStorying the ecocatastrophe : _bcontemporary narratives about the environmental collapse edited by _cHelena Duffy and Katarina Leppanen
260			_aNew York _bRoutledge _c2024
300			_a280p.
440			_aRoutledge studies in world literatures and the environment
500			_aHow do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action or at least raise their environmental awareness without, however, appearing didactic? Storying the Ecocatastrophe attempts to answer this question while interrogating the potential of narrative to become a viable political force. It achieves this by examining the representational strategies and ideological goals of contemporary cultural productions about climate change. These productions have been created across different genres, such as the traditional novel, dance performance, solarpunk, economic report, collage, and space opera, as well as across different languages and cultures. The volume's twelve chapters demonstrate that rising temperatures, erratic weather, extinction of species, depletion of resources, and coastal erosion and flooding are an effect of our abusive relationship with nature. They also show that our use of nuclear power, extraction of natural resources and extensive farming, including heavy reliance on pesticides, intersect with interhuman violence, as fleshed out by heteropatriarchy, racism, colonialism, and capitalism. They finally argue that human activity has indirectly contributed to other contemporary crises, namely the migrant crisis and the spread of contagious diseases such as Covid-19
650			_aFiction--History and criticism.
650			_aClimatic changes in literature.
650			_aEnvironmental literature--History and criticism.
650			_aEcofiction.
650			_aCriticism.
700			_aLeppanen, Katarina
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