English Literature. Vol. 10 - Dicembre 2023
Description
The five contributions to this issue discuss how film, comics, video games, and literature approach various issues and phenomena of intergenerational significance in the face of looming environmental catastrophe.
Table of Contents:
HUMAN GENERATIONS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS IN LITERATURE, FILM, AND OTHER MEDIA
Introduction
Michael Fuchs, Roberta Maierhofer
Memory Carriers and Intergenerational Kinship in Indigenous Climate Change Fiction
Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (2013) and Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves (2017)
Teresa Botelho
Multiscalar Temporalities in Postcolonial Climate Fiction
Nadine Böhm-Schnitker
Game Over for Climate Change?
Communicating and Visualising Global Warming in Digital Games
Carolin Becklas, Sabine Baumann
Don’t Look Up Climate Change
Dooming Boomers, Nihilistic Teenagers and Underfunded Scientists Against/For the World
Georg Gruber
The Slow Apocalypse in The Low, Low Woods
Michael Fuchs, Anna Marta Marini
Publisher:
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University PressDate:
2024Format
application/pdf (2.87 MB)
Subject
• Intergenerational Gap • Mining • Gun Island • Ethicology • Climate crisis communication • Trauma • Climate change communication • Extraction • Coal • Biosemiotics • Popular culture • Climate Change Fiction • Comics • Intersectionality • Climate crisis in film • Ecocriticism • Ecohorror • Sustainability • Appalachia • New materialism • Audience engagement • The Hungry Tide • Dystopia • Digital games • Don’t Look Up • Multiscalar temporalities • Climate change • Allegorical satire • Ecogothic • Amitav Ghosh • Environmental Justice • Indigenous Literature • Mahasweta Devi
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