Timothy Clark's Ecocritcism on the Edge

• The Climate Crisis is a crisis of imagination, therefore, the arts have a pivitol role to play
• But, generic narrative conventions are at odds with both the scale and issues of the climate crisis
  • character arcs are often about self-fulfilment or competition
  • in speculative fiction, destructive weather events are an exciting indulgence
  • In science fiction, there is optimism that technology will save us
  • narratives are structured around individual characters and how their decisions impact their lives. There are never consequences of 'species-wide' action

Adam Trexler's Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change

Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

Adeline Johns-Putra The Rest is Silence: Postmodern & Postcolonial Possibilities in Climate Change Fiction

Val Plumwood Decolonizing Relationships with Nature