Cli-fi: a companion

by Goodbody, Axel Johns-Putra, Adeline

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Full title :Cli-fi : a companion / edited by Axel Goodbody and Adeline Johns-Putra.

Summary

"What is Cli-Fi? Climate change fiction is a new literary phenomenon that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century in response to what may be society's greatest challenge. Climate change is already part responsible for extreme weather events, flooding, desertification and sea level rise, leading to famine, the spread of disease, and population displacement. Cli-fi novels and films are typically set in the future, telling of disaster and its effect on humans, or they depict the present, beset by dilemmas, conflicts or conspiracies, and pointing to grave consequences. At their heart are ethical and political questions: will humankind rise to the challenge of acting collectively, in the interest of the future? What sacrifices will be necessary, and is a green dictatorship our only hope for survival as a species? Each chapter in this volume offers a way of reading a particular literary text or film, drawing attention to themes, formal features, reception, contribution to public debate, and issues for class discussion. Popular novels and films (Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capitol trilogy, Michael Crichton's State of Fear, Ian McEwan's Solar, and The Day after Tomorrow) are examined alongside lesser known writing (for instance J.G. Ballard's "proto-climate change" novel The Drowned World and Antti Tuomainen's Finnish thriller, The Healer), and films not generally thought of as being about climate change (Frozen and Take Shelter). The book, which includes an introduction tracing the emergence and influence of cli-fi, is directed towards general readers and film enthusiasts as well as teachers and students. Written in an accessible style, it fills the gap between academic studies and online blogs, offering a comprehensive look at this timely new genre"--Publisher's description

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Peter Lang
Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) : : color illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781788740753, 1788740750, 9781788740746, 1788740742, 9781788740739, 1788740734
DOI:10.3726/b12457
oclc:on1083688057
LC Classification:PN56.C612
Dewey Decimal:809.3/936

Introduction / Axel Goodbody, Adeline Johns-Putra -- Part I: Proto-Climate Change Fiction. J. G. Ballard's The drowned world (1962): psycho-geographical cli-fi / Jim Clarke -- Max Frisch's Man in the holocene (1980): geological cli-fi / Thomas H. Ford -- Ignacio Brandão's And still the earth (1981): political cli-fi / Mark Anderson -- Part II: Speculative future fiction: dystopian and post-apocalyptic narratives. George Turner's The sea and summer (1987): urban dystopian cli-fi / Thomas H. Ford -- Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy (2003-2013): post-apocalyptic cli-fi / Dana Phillips -- Paolo Bacigalupi's The windup girl (2009): biopunk cli-fi / M. Isabel Pérez-Ramos -- Steven Amsterdam's Things we didn't see coming (2009): riskscape cli-fi / Antonia Mehnert -- Ilija Trojanow's The lamentations of zeno (2011/2016): prophetic cli-fi / Axel Goodbody -- Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer (2014): adventure cli-fi / Kiu-Wai Chu -- Jeff Nichols's Take shelter (2011): psychic cli-fi / Stef Craps -- Part III: Realist narratives set in the present and near future. Maggie Gee's The ice people (1998) and The flood (2004): state of the nation cli-fi / Adeline Johns-Putra -- T. C. Boyle's A friend of…