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Author:   Adeline Johns-Putra ,  Kelly Sultzbach (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9781009060813

ISBN 10:   1009060813
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   07 April 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Adeline Johns-Putra and Kelly Sultzbach; Part I. Historical Shifts in Climate Consciousness: 1. Seasonal processions Sarah Dimick; 2. Literal and literary atmospheres Thomas H. Ford; 3. Weathers of body and world: Reading difference in literary atmospheres before climate change Jennifer Mae Hamilton; Part II. Current Issues in Climate Change Criticism: 4. Scales: Climate versus embodiment Derek Woods; 5. Capitalist cultures: The taste of oil Elizabeth Mazzolini; 6. Animals and extinction Fiona Probyn-Rapsey; 7. Climate justice and literatures of the global south Chitra Sankaran; Part III. Ways of Telling Climate Stories: 8. Climate theatre: Enacting possible futures Theresa J. May; 9. Digital Cli-Fi: Human stories of climate in online and social media John Parham; 10. Climate on screen: From doom and disaster to ecotopian visions Alexa Weik von Mossner; Part IV. Dialogic Perspectives on Emerging Questions: Science Fiction and Future Fantasies; 11. Ice-sheet collapse and the consensus apocalypse in the science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson Gerry Canavan; 12. Solarpunk Gregory Lynall; Collective Climate Action; 13. Indigenous and black feminist knowledge-production, speculative science stories, and climate change literature Shelley Streeby; 14. More-than-human collectives in richard powers' the overstory and vandana singh's 'entanglement' Kelly Sultzbach; Love Letters to the Planet; 15. Meteorology of form Thomas Bristow; 16. Perspective-taking, empathy, and virtuality in Jorie Graham's fast Isabel Galleymore; Diverse Indigenous Voices on Climate; 17. Climate change and indigenous sovereignty in pacific islanders' writing Hsinya Huang; 18. Literary responses to indigenous climate justice and the canadian settler-state Jenny Kerber and Cheryl Lousley; Redefining 'the Real'; 19. Transtextual realism for the climatological collective Adeline Johns-Putra; 20. Critical Climate Irrealism Sam Solnick.

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'Scholars and activists interested in the possibilities of recent cli-fi and related genres will find these essays helpful … Recommended.' J. Bilbro, Choice

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Adeline Johns-Putra is Professor of Literature at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She is a past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI). Her books include Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel (2019) and The History of the Epic (2006), and the edited volumes Climate and Literature (2019) and Cli-Fi: A Companion (2018). Kelly Sultzbach is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, and was a Fulbright Scholar with University of Liverpool in 2019. She is a co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate (with Adeline Johns-Putra), and the author of Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination: Forster, Woolf, and Auden (2016). Recent work also includes articles in Modernist Cultures, the ASLE UKI journal Green Letters (2019) and a chapter in Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism (2018).

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