02993namaa2200493uu 4500 oapen98934 oapen 20251217011845.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 250304s2024a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 9781032726946 9781032726953 9781032726977 10.4324/9781032726953 doi oapen oapen eng dc D thema DS thema Duffy, Helena aut Storying the Ecocatastrophe Contemporary Narratives about the Environmental Collapse Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2024 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star How 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. The collection of essays 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 intrahuman violence, as fleshed out by heteropatriarchy, racism, (neo)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. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Biography, Literature and Literary studies thema Literature: history and criticism thema anthropocene climate change climate fiction comparative literature environmental literature Duffy, Helena edt Leppänen, Katarina edt OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98934 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 36809 36809