Essays about: "Anthropocene fiction"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words Anthropocene fiction.

  1. 1. Overpopulation and Authoritarian Regime : The Villains in an Anthropocene Era

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Kajsa Gingborn; [2024]
    Keywords : Anthropocene; Authoriterian; Overpopulation; John Lanchester; Sam J. Miller; Blackfish City; The Wall; Rebellion; Social Justice; Climate Change; Anthropocene Fiction;

    Abstract : This essay explores the dynamic landscape of Anthropocene fiction, using novels such as John Lanchester’s The Wall and Sam J. Miller’s Blackfish City as lenses through which to explore the aftermath of climate change. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Overstory: A Blueprint for Cultural Change in the Anthropocene

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Author : Isak Sköld; [2023]
    Keywords : the Anthropocene; Cultural Change; Richard Powers; The Overstory; Trees; Literature; Climate Change Literature; Ecocriticism; Activism; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Within the field of ecocriticism, there is an ongoing discussion about climate change fiction and the capacity for literature to inspire cultural change in relation to the climate crisis of the Anthropocene. Relatively new novels explore the inherent conflict between consumerist features of contemporary human culture and scientific facts regarding human impact on life on Earth. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Costs of Modernity : How a historical steampunk fantasy such as The Kingston Cycle can successfully portray the intersectional origins of the Capitalocene

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Lisa Persson Örtman; [2021]
    Keywords : the Capitalocene; the Anthropocene; historical fantasy; steampunk; speculative fiction; genre;

    Abstract : There is a growing recognition of the interconnectedness of the crises of food, water, democracy and climate change as stemming from the capitalist hunt for modernity and progress. As climate change is thus not only so complex, but urgent, the question of a successful portrayal of it for an enhanced understanding and subsequent action becomes vital. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Incomprehensible Scale of the Anthropocene: The Relevance of the Sublime in VanderMeer's 'Annihilation' and Anthropocene Fiction

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Leila Francis; [2020]
    Keywords : sublime; Annihilation; Jeff VanderMeer; Anthropocene fiction; climate fiction;

    Abstract : This paper examines the relationship between the sublime and the Anthropocene, the period in earth’s geological history characterized by human impact upon the planet. As the genre of Anthropocene fiction, or climate fiction, has emerged in recent years, difficulties in defining the new genre as well as identifying useful tropes and forms within cli-fi novels has given rise to several proposed methods of understanding the Anthropocene. READ MORE

  6. 5. Cooperative Apocalypse : Hostile Geological Forces in N. K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Felicia Stenberg; [2020]
    Keywords : The Broken Earth trilogy; N. K. Jemisin; Bruno Latour; Agency; ANT; Geostory; Donna Haraway; Chthulucene; Sympoeisis; Become-with; Response-Ability; Anthropocene; Anthropocentrism; Posthumanism; Climate Fiction; Collectivism; Gaia Theory; Amitav Ghosh.;

    Abstract : In this thesis I explore the place of the human in the Anthropocene, and our relationship to the Earth through an analysis of N. K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy. READ MORE