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The American Climate Emergency Narrative: Origins, Developments and Imaginary Futures de Johan Höglund

The American Climate Emergency Narrative: Origins, Developments and Imaginary Futures: New Comparisons in World Literature

Autor Johan Höglund
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 aug 2024
The American Climate Emergency Narrative reveals reveals how much of what has been called "climate fiction" casts ecological breakdown as an emergency for American capitalist modernity rather than for the planet. The book traces the origins of this narrative back to the arrival of settler capitalism in America, when the understanding of the planet and its people as extractable resources was established. Since then, this narrative has elided the violent history of the climate crisis while at the same time leveraging the military as a bulwark against the crises capitalism has caused, the people it has uprooted, even the ailing planet itself.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031606441
ISBN-10: 3031606442
Ilustrații: XII, 250 p. 20 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Ediția:2024
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria New Comparisons in World Literature

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Introduction: The American Climate Emergency Narrative.- Chapter 2: Settler Capitalist Frontiers.- Chapter 3: Fossil Fictions.- Chapter 4: The Irradiated.- Chapter 5: Geopolitics.- Chapter 6: The Displaced.- Chapter 7: Ruins.- Chapter 8: Fallout Futures.

Notă biografică

Johan Höglund is Professor of English and a member and former director of the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He is the author of The American Imperial Gothic and editor of several collections and special issues that investigate how popular culture narrates colonialism, neocolonialism, and extractive capitalism.

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 “Johan Höglund has given us a powerful and insightful account of how American hegemony has produced not only climate crisis but a self-serving emergency narrative. Gracefully and clearly written, his book illuminates the entangled relations of cultural power, capitalist rapacity, and the American war machine in the making of climate crisis.”
—Jason W. Moore, Binghamton University, USA
 
“A stunning, original and compelling reading of American cultural work that fully realises the long roots of capitalism’s climate emergency. Höglund takes a world-ecological lens to an innovative and impressive range of texts and in so doing repurposes our understanding of the climate narrative.”
—Graeme Macdonald, University of Warwick, UK
 
“Höglund’s work is critical to understanding the current cultural moment in the US, wherein the ‘policing of the imagination’ is resisted at the margins, while cultural elites and the US state promote climate emergency narratives that attempt to naturalize alternatives to the socio-ecological violence of capitalist expansion via imperialism and colonialism.”
—Hannah Holleman, Amherst College, USA
 
“Moving from plantation cultures to the post-apocalyptic, Höglund’s indispensable study proposes a corrective to conventional ecocritical readings.”
—Pramod K. Nayar, University of Hyderabad, India
This open access book reveals how much of what has been called “climate fiction” casts ecological breakdown as an emergency for American capitalist modernity rather than for the planet. The book traces the origins of this narrative back to the arrival of settler capitalism in America, when the understanding of the planet and its people as extractable resources was established. Since then, this narrative has elided the violent history of the climate crisis while at the same time leveraging the military as a bulwark against the crises capitalism has caused, the people it has uprooted, even the ailing planet itself.
 
Johan Höglund is Professor of English at Linnaeus University, Sweden.

Caracteristici

Shows how climate narratives promote or interrogate national security discourses Uses the world-ecological perspective to explore planetary unevenness and radical inequities of global climate change Advances literary ecocriticism through use of world-literature studies & by focusing hegemonic core of the world-system This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access