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Cli-fi and class : socioeconomic justice in contemporary American climate fiction / edited by Debra J. Rosenthal and Jason de Lara Molesky.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Under the Sign of Nature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes in literature.
- Social justice in literature.
- American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "The essays in this collection analyze the complex interplays between climate change and inequalities of wealth and power in best-selling popular novels, science fiction titles, literary novels, Hollywood films, and Broadway plays, among other forms"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Class Structure and Resource Extraction
- Hadestown and Other Myths for the Anthropocene: Company Towns and Proletarian Traditions in US Climate Fiction
- Burnout: Cli-Fi and Exhaustion
- Resource Utopia and Dystopia: Excavating Class in Afrofuturist Cli-Fi Film
- Dreaming a Decolonized Climate: Indigenous Technologies and Relations of Class and Kinship in Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves
- Part II: Class Differentiation and Climate Risk
- Climate-Change Fiction and Poverty Studies: Kingsolver's Flight Behavior, Diaz's "Monstro," and Bacigalupi's "The Tamarisk Hunter"
- Learning to Survive: Place-Based Education in Strange as This Weather Has Been and Parable of the Sower
- Settler Apocalypses: Race, Class, and the Erasure of Indigenous Resilience in Alaskan Cli-Fi
- Black: A Speculative Almanac for the End of the World
- Part III: Class Privilege and Climate Anxiety
- Class and Revolution in the Climate Fictions of Kim Stanley Robinson: Transition to Postcapitalism
- Heartland of Darkness: Nostalgia and Class in the Climate Fiction of Paolo Bacigalupi
- Whose Odds?: The Absence of Climate Justice in American Climate Fiction of the 2000s and 2010s
- Cli-Fi and the Crisis of the Middle Class
- Homelessness in Lauren Groff's Florida Fiction: Climate Change and Displacement
- Epilogue: What Has Changed since Anthropocene Fictions?
- Contributors
- Index
- Recent books in the series.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8139-5026-0
- OCLC:
- 1384450382
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