(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction demonstrates that disaster fiction-nuclear holocaust and climate change alike-allows us to unearth and anatomize contemporary psychodynamics, and enables us to identify pre-traumatic stress as the common denominator of seemingly unrelated types of texts.
(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction demonstrates that disaster fiction-nuclear holocaust and climate change alike-allows us to unearth and anatomize contemporary psychodynamics, and enables us to identify pre-traumatic stress as the common denominator of seemingly unrelated types of texts.
Dominika Oramus is a full professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw and holder of a PhD in literature studies (1999, University of Warsaw) and of a postdoctoral degree in liberal arts (2008, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Modern Languages). Her books include Grave New World: The Decline of the West in the Fiction of J. G. Ballard (Terminal Press, 2015).
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INTRODUCTION: Doomsday Clock Narratives Chapter I Anticipating Disasters: Anxieties and Traumas - Eco-Anxiety and Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome - Pre-Traumatic Stress: the Psychoanalytical Perspective Chapter II Writing about Disasters: Metaphors and Parables - Geological Metaphors - Parables of Nature and Symbolic Timepieces Chapter III Disaster Fantasies: Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction - Disaster Story Tradition - Nuclear Holocaust Fiction - Climate Fiction Chapter IV 'Maybe it's a period of grace': Mid-Twentieth-Century Nuclear Holocaust Fiction in the Hands of Nevil Shute and Walter M. Miller - Nevil Shute On the Beach - Walter M. Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz Chapter V 'Imposing fantasies on the changing landscape:' the Visions of John Christopher, J.G. Ballard and George Turner - John Christopher The World in Winter - J.G. Ballard The Drought - George Turner The Sea and Summer Chapter VI 'I wonder how much longer we have:' Recent Climate Fiction from the Pens of Maggie Gee, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ruth Ozeki and Yoko Tawada - Maggie Gee The Ice People - Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl - Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being - Yoko Tawada The Last Children of Tokyo CONCLUSION: Reading Climate Anxiety Through the Lens of a Nuclear Holocaust - The Uses of Doomsday Clock Narratives - Fallout and Flood -"We," the Readers of Doomsday Clock Narratives
INTRODUCTION: Doomsday Clock Narratives Chapter I Anticipating Disasters: Anxieties and Traumas - Eco-Anxiety and Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome - Pre-Traumatic Stress: the Psychoanalytical Perspective Chapter II Writing about Disasters: Metaphors and Parables - Geological Metaphors - Parables of Nature and Symbolic Timepieces Chapter III Disaster Fantasies: Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction - Disaster Story Tradition - Nuclear Holocaust Fiction - Climate Fiction Chapter IV 'Maybe it's a period of grace': Mid-Twentieth-Century Nuclear Holocaust Fiction in the Hands of Nevil Shute and Walter M. Miller - Nevil Shute On the Beach - Walter M. Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz Chapter V 'Imposing fantasies on the changing landscape:' the Visions of John Christopher, J.G. Ballard and George Turner - John Christopher The World in Winter - J.G. Ballard The Drought - George Turner The Sea and Summer Chapter VI 'I wonder how much longer we have:' Recent Climate Fiction from the Pens of Maggie Gee, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ruth Ozeki and Yoko Tawada - Maggie Gee The Ice People - Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl - Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being - Yoko Tawada The Last Children of Tokyo CONCLUSION: Reading Climate Anxiety Through the Lens of a Nuclear Holocaust - The Uses of Doomsday Clock Narratives - Fallout and Flood -"We," the Readers of Doomsday Clock Narratives
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