The American Climate Emergency Narrative

The American Climate Emergency Narrative reveals how much of what has been called "climate fiction" casts ecological breakdown as an emergency for American capitalist modernity rather than for the planet. The book traces the origins of this narrative back to the arrival of settler capitalism in America, when the understanding of the planet and its people as extractable resources was established. Since then, this narrative has elided the violent history of the climate crisis while at the same time leveraging the military as a bulwark against the crises capitalism has caused, the people it has uprooted, even the ailing planet itself.

This is an open access book.

Shows how climate narratives promote or interrogate national security discourses Uses the world-ecological perspective to explore planetary unevenness and radical inequities of global climate change Advances ecocriticism through use of world-literature studies & by focusing the hegemonic core of the world-system This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

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Johan Höglund is Professor of English and a member and former director of the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He is the author of The American Imperial Gothic and editor of several collections and special issues that investigate how popular culture narrates colonialism, neocolonialism, and extractive capitalism.

Klappentext

The American Climate Emergency Narrative reveals how much of what has been called "climate fiction" casts ecological breakdown as an emergency for American capitalist modernity rather than for the planet. The book traces the origins of this narrative back to the arrival of settler capitalism in America, when the understanding of the planet and its people as extractable resources was established. Since then, this narrative has elided the violent history of the climate crisis while at the same time leveraging the military as a bulwark against the crises capitalism has caused, the people it has uprooted, even the ailing planet itself. This is an open access book.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction: The American Climate Emergency Narrative.- Chapter 2: Settler Capitalist Frontiers.- Chapter 3: Fossil Fictions.- Chapter 4: The Irradiated.- Chapter 5: Geopolitics.- Chapter 6: The Displaced.- Chapter 7: Ruins.- Chapter 8: Fallout Futures.