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03108aam a2200433Ii 4500 001 D687603E214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230713010558 008 170313s2017 ilu b 000 0 eng 020 $a 9780226526812 020 $a 022652681X 035 $a (OCoLC)975472444 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BTN $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d JSE $d OCLCO $d K6U $d UKUOY $d UAB $d UKMGB $d AUD $d OCLCQ $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d NLMAA $d OCLCQ $d CPD $d ORE $d OCLCO $d P4A $d OCLCA $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a PN56.C612 $b G48 2017 055 3 $a PN56 C612 $b G46 070 0 $a PN56.C612 $b G48 2016 082 04 $a 809/.9336 $2 23 100 1 $a Ghosh, Amitav, $d 1956- $e author. 245 14 $a The great derangement : $b climate change and the unthinkable / $c Amitav Ghosh. 250 $a Paperback edition. 264 1 $a Chicago [Illinois] : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 196 pages ; $c 22 cm 490 1 $a The Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin family lectures 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-196). 505 0 $a Stories -- History -- Politics. 520 $a "Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, makes them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements. Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence--a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer's summons to confront the most urgent task of our time." --Cover. 650 0 $a Climatic changes in literature. 650 6 $a Climat $x Changements, dans la litteÌrature. 650 7 $a Climatic changes in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01902821 650 7 $a Englisch $2 gnd 650 7 $a ErwaÌrmung $g Meteorologie $2 gnd 650 7 $a KlimaaÌnderung $2 gnd 650 7 $a KlimaaÌnderung $g Motiv $2 gnd 650 7 $a Literatur $2 gnd 830 0 $a Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin family lectures. 941 $a 1 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718092952.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D687603E214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search