Tyler Austin Harper Bates College “Unequal Survival: Climate Fiction, Paranoid Anthropocentrism, and the Politics of Existential Risk” Abstract This article examines the rhetorics that have informed literary and filmic works in which climate change is depicted as an...
Conrad Scott University of Alberta “‘Everything Change’: Ecocritical Dystopianism and Climate Fiction” Abstract This paper approaches the environmental catastrophe of climate change through a selection of contemporary sf works that feature physical changes to...
Alexander Popov and Konstantin Georgiev Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and Rice University “Crises of Water and the New Maps to Utopia” Abstract Following Kim Stanley Robinson, we use the Greimasian semiotic square to enlarge the meaning of utopia beyond the...
Suzanne F. Boswell Rutgers University “The Four Tourists of the Apocalypse: Figures of the Anthropocene in Caribbean Climate Fiction” Abstract Scholars of climate fiction often argue that climate change creates narrative innovation: an apocalypse, a generic shift...
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