(Eco)anxiety in nuclear holocaust fiction and climate fiction

• Verfasst von: Oramus, Dominika [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: (Eco)anxiety in nuclear holocaust fiction and climate fiction
• Titelzusatz: doomsday clock narratives
• Verf.angabe: Dominika Oramus
• Verlagsort: New York ; London
• Verlag: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: vi, 162 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
• ISBN: 978-1-032-46892-1
• ISBN: 978-1-032-46893-8
• Schlagwörter: (s)Englisch / (s)Dystopie <Literatur> / (s)Science-Fiction-Literatur / (s)Kerntechnischer Unfall <Motiv> / (s)Klimakatastrophe <Motiv>
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Oramus, Dominika, 1972-: (Eco)anxiety in nuclear holocaust fiction and climate fiction. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 |(DLC)2023003225
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Oramus, Dominika, 1972 - : (Eco)anxiety in nuclear holocaust fiction and climate fiction. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. - 1 Online-Ressource (171 Seiten)
• RVK-Notation: HO 11010
• Sach-SW: Literary criticism
• K10plus-PPN: 1848652291

Abstract

"(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction: Doomsday Clock Narratives demonstrates that disaster fiction-nuclear holocaust and climate change alike-allows us to unearth and anatomize contemporary psychodynamics, and enables us to identify pre-traumatic stress as the common denominator of seemingly unrelated types of texts. These Doomsday Clock Narratives argue that earth's demise is soon and certain. They are set after some catastrophe and depict people waiting for an even worse catastrophe to come. References to geology are particularly important-in descriptions of the landscape, the emphasis falls on waste and industrial bric-a-brac, which is seen through the eyes of a future, post-human archaeologist. Their protagonists have the uncanny feeling that the countdown has already started, and they are coping with both traumatic memories and pre-traumatic stress. Readings of novels by Walter M. Miller, Nevil Shute, John Christopher, J.G. Ballard, George Turner, Paolo Bacigalupi, Maggie Gee, Ruth Ozeki and Yoko Tawada demonstrate that the authors are both indebted to a century-old tradition and inventively looking for new ways of expressing the Pre-TSS common in contemporary society. This book is written for an academic audience (postgraduates, researchers and academics) specializing in British Literature, American Literature, and Science Fiction Studies"--