Cli-fi and class : socioeconomic justice in contemporary American climate fiction /

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"The essays in this collection analyze the complex interplays between climate change and inequalities of wealth and power in best-selling popular novels, science fiction titles, literary novels, Hollywood films, and Broadway plays, among other forms"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rosenthal, Debra J., 1964- (Editor ), Molesky, Jason de Lara, 1985- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Colección:Under the sign of nature.
Temas:
2000-2099
Climatic changes in literature.
Social justice in literature.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Climat > Changements, dans la littérature.
Justice sociale dans la littérature.
Roman américain > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
American fiction
Climatic changes in literature
Social justice in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Class Structure and Resource Extraction
  • Hadestown and Other Myths for the Anthropocene: Company Towns and Proletarian Traditions in US Climate Fiction
  • Burnout: Cli-Fi and Exhaustion
  • Resource Utopia and Dystopia: Excavating Class in Afrofuturist Cli-Fi Film
  • Dreaming a Decolonized Climate: Indigenous Technologies and Relations of Class and Kinship in Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves
  • Part II: Class Differentiation and Climate Risk
  • Climate-Change Fiction and Poverty Studies: Kingsolver's Flight Behavior, Diaz's "Monstro," and Bacigalupi's "The Tamarisk Hunter"
  • Learning to Survive: Place-Based Education in Strange as This Weather Has Been and Parable of the Sower
  • Settler Apocalypses: Race, Class, and the Erasure of Indigenous Resilience in Alaskan Cli-Fi
  • Black: A Speculative Almanac for the End of the World
  • Part III: Class Privilege and Climate Anxiety
  • Class and Revolution in the Climate Fictions of Kim Stanley Robinson: Transition to Postcapitalism
  • Heartland of Darkness: Nostalgia and Class in the Climate Fiction of Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Whose Odds?: The Absence of Climate Justice in American Climate Fiction of the 2000s and 2010s
  • Cli-Fi and the Crisis of the Middle Class
  • Homelessness in Lauren Groff's Florida Fiction: Climate Change and Displacement
  • Epilogue: What Has Changed since Anthropocene Fictions?
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Recent books in the series

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