The near future in twenty-first-century fiction : climate, retreat and revolution / David Sergeant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sergeant, David, 1979- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture.

Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction--History and criticism.

Science fiction.

Future, The, in literature.

Climatic changes in literature.

Human ecology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 227 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an increasing amount of fiction being set there. But what do these disparate works have in common, other than their temporal setting? And what can the imagination of the near future tell us about where we live now? The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction ranges across novels and films to reveal how our contemporary near future splits between two divergent paths. One seeks to retreat from climate change and the disruption it threatens to affluent lifestyles; the other tries to imagine new forms of community, and radical change, but struggles to locate a genre adequate to the task. It in this struggle, however, that we begin to glimpse the outlines of an emergent near future form: a revolution fit for the Anthropocene.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Jun 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-009-27991-2

1-009-27989-0

1-009-27990-4