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The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Climate, Retreat and Revolution: Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture

Autor David Sergeant
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 dec 2022
A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an increasing amount of fiction being set there. But what do these disparate works have in common, other than their temporal setting? And what can the imagination of the near future tell us about where we live now? The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction ranges across novels and films to reveal how our contemporary near future splits between two divergent paths. One seeks to retreat from climate change and the disruption it threatens to affluent lifestyles; the other tries to imagine new forms of community, and radical change, but struggles to locate a genre adequate to the task. It in this struggle, however, that we begin to glimpse the outlines of an emergent near future form: a revolution fit for the Anthropocene.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009279888
ISBN-10: 1009279882
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 236 x 160 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. The domestic near future 1: renewing time; 2. The domestic near future 2: bodies; 3. The state of art: creativity and scale; 4. Diagnostic dead-ends: seeking the emergent form; 5. The art of history: Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Moon; 6. Identity and power: historical returns and breaks; 7. In search of revolution: territory and history; 8. The genre of revolution: Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140.

Recenzii

'David Sergeant works carefully through his chosen texts and key textual evidence to draw conclusions about their ideological commitments. The analyses here can be brilliant; what he manages to pull out of these texts is revelatory.' Amy J. Elias, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
'David Sergeant's Fictions of the Near Future makes a crucial intervention in scholarship on utopian fiction, speculative fiction, and climate change fiction by demonstrating the contemporary political relevance of the near future as it appears in novels across a range of genres and styles' Rachel Greenwald Smith, Saint Louis University

Descriere

Explores contemporary fiction set in the near future to shed new light on our culture's relationship to the Anthropocene.