Afrofuturism
Anthropocene
anti-Blackness
apocalypse
Barbara Kingsolver
Black Panther
capitalism
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coal
Colson Whitehead
Cormac McCarthy
disaster
energy economies
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Florida
fracking
futurity
Global South
homelessness
Indigenous erasure
Kim Stanley Robinson
labor
Margaret Atwood
Marxism
middle class anxiety
nostalgia
Octavia Butler
poverty
precarity
protest literature
science fiction
settler colonialism
toxicity
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
wealth
whiteness
working-class
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- ISBN 9780813950259
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Oct 2023
- Publisher: University of Virginia Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Since its emergence in the late twentieth century, climate fiction--or cli-fi--has concerned itself as much with economic injustice and popular revolt as with rising seas and soaring temperatures. Indeed, with its insistent focus on redressing social disparities, cli-fi might reasonably be classified as a form of protest literature. As environmental crises escalate and inequality intensifies, literary writers and scholars alike have increasingly scrutinized the dual exploitations of the earth’s ecosystems and the socioeconomically disadvantaged.
Cli-Fi and Class focuses on the representation of class dynamics in climate-change narratives. With fifteen essays on the intersection of the economic and the ecological--addressing works ranging from the novels of Joseph Conrad, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia Butler to the film Black Panther and the Broadway musical Hadestown--this collection unpacks the complex ways economic exploitation impacts planetary well-being, and the ways climatic change shapes those inequities in turn.
Cli-Fi and Class focuses on the representation of class dynamics in climate-change narratives. With fifteen essays on the intersection of the economic and the ecological--addressing works ranging from the novels of Joseph Conrad, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia Butler to the film Black Panther and the Broadway musical Hadestown--this collection unpacks the complex ways economic exploitation impacts planetary well-being, and the ways climatic change shapes those inequities in turn.
Debra J. Rosenthal is Professor of English at John Carroll University and the author of Performatively Speaking: Speech and Action in Antebellum American Literature. Jason de Lara Molesky is a postdoctoral fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University.
