Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction

This book entangles feminist environmental humanities and speculative fiction to engage critically with the master narrative of the Anthropocene from an intersectional perspective. It analyses Anglophone dystopian and post-apocalyptic literary texts focusing mainly on Alexis Wright, Nnedi Okorafor and N. K. Jemisin.

This book explores the interplay between the transformative vision of feminist environmental humanities and the critical contribution of feminist speculative fiction to the debate about the climate crisis. It intervenes in the debate about the master narrative of the Anthropocene and about the one-dimensional perspective that often characterises its literary representations from a feminist perspective that also aims at decolonising the imagination. The ecofeminist stance of this book is informed by intersectionality and decolonial feminism and looks at dystopian and post-apocalyptic literary texts that consider the patriarchal domination of nature in its intersections with other injustices that play out within the Anthropocene. The study analyses the work of a variety of authors from several Anglophone literatures, focusing mainly on Alexis Wright, Nnedi Okorafor and N. K. Jemisin, and drawing comparison with authors such as Cherie Dimaline, Vandana Singh, and Jesmyn Ward.

Autorentext

Chiara Xausa is EU Marie Sk odowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bologna, the University of Idaho and Ghent University.

Inhalt
Feminist Environmental Humanities - Climate Change In Literature And Literary Studies: From Ecocriticism To The Climate Change Novel - The Uneven Universality Of Climate Change: Representing Climate Justice - A Crisis Of Imagination: Decolonising Climate Change Fiction Alexis Wright's Carpentaria And The Swan Book - Multispecies Entanglements And Feminist Co-Becoming Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon - A Critique Of Sustainability N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy - Conclusion: Toward A Decolonial Ecofeminist Imaginary Of The Environmental Crisis.