Cli-fi and class : socioeconomic justice in contemporary American climate fiction / edited by Debra J. Rosenthal and Jason de Lara Molesky.

Other author Rosenthal, Debra J., 1964- editor.
Other author Molesky, Jason de Lara, 1985- editor.
Format Electronic
PublicationCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Copyright Date©2023
Description1 online resource (vi, 260 pages).
Supplemental ContentEbook Central
Subjects
Climatic changes in literature.
Social justice in literature.
American fiction--21st century. --History and criticism.

Variant title Climate fiction and class
SeriesUnder the sign of nature : explorations in environmental humanities
Under the sign of nature. ^A486502
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
Contents 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
Contents 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
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionElectronic resource, viewed: March 20, 2024.
Issued in other formPrint version: Cli-fi and class : socioeconomic justice in contemporary American climate fiction. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023 9780813950242 9780813950259
Genre/formElectronic books.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2023018068
ISBN9780813950266 electronic book
ISBN0813950260 electronic book
ISBNhardcover
ISBNpaperback
Stock number22573/cats6014628 JSTOR

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