Dominika Oramus

(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

Doomsday Clock Narratives

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

(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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000910254
• Artikelnr.: 68078082

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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