Part I. Class structure and resource extraction. Hadestown and other myths for the anthropocene: company towns and proletarian traditions in US climate fiction / Jason de Lara Molesky -- Burnout: cli-fi and exhaustion / Lisa Ottum -- Resource utopia and dystopia: excavating class in Afrofuturist cli-fi film / Martín Premoli and B. Jamieson Stanley -- Dreaming a decolonized climate: indigenous technologies and relations of class and kinship in Cherie Dimaline's The marrow thieves / Jessica Cory -- 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" / Debra J. Rosenthal -- Learning to survive: place-based education in Strange as this weather has been and Parable of the sower / Jennifer Horwitz -- Settler apocalypses: race, class, and the erasure of indigenous resilience in Alaskan cli-fi / Jennifer Schell -- Black: a speculative almanac for the end of the world / Kimberly Bain -- Part III. Class privilege and climate anxiety. Class and revolution in the climate fictions of Kim Stanley Robinson: transition to postcapitalism / Andrew Milner -- Heartland of darkness: nostalgia and class in the climate fiction of Paolo Bacigalupi / Jeffrey M. Brown -- Whose odds? The absence of climate justice in American climate fiction of the 2000s and 2010s / Matthew Schneider-Mayerson -- Cli-fi and the crisis of the middle class / Magdalena Ma̜czyńska -- Homelessness in Lauren Groff's Florida fiction: climate change and displacement / Teresa A. Goddu -- Epilogue: what has changed since Anthropocene fictions? / Adam Trexler.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher. "Since its emergence in the late twentieth century, climate fiction--or cli-fi--has concerned itself as much with economic injustice and popular revolt as with rising seas and soaring temperatures. Indeed, with its insistent focus on redressing social disparities, cli-fi might reasonably be classified as a form of protest literature. As environmental crises escalate and inequality intensifies, literary writers and scholars alike have increasingly scrutinized the dual exploitations of the earth's ecosystems and the socioeconomically disadvantaged. Cli-Fi and Class focuses on the representation of class dynamics in climate-change narratives. With fifteen essays on the intersection of the economic and the ecological--addressing works ranging from the novels of Joseph Conrad, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia Butler to the film Black Panther and the Broadway musical Hadestown --this collection unpacks the complex ways economic exploitation impacts planetary well-being, and the ways climatic change shapes those inequities in turn." -- Publisher's description
Series:
Under the sign of nature: explorations in environmental humanities
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.