The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction : Climate, Retreat and Revolution Hardback
by David (University of Plymouth) Sergeant
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture series
Hardback
Description
A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an increasing amount of fiction being set there.
But what do these disparate works have in common, other than their temporal setting? And what can the imagination of the near future tell us about where we live now?
The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction ranges across novels and films to reveal how our contemporary near future splits between two divergent paths.
One seeks to retreat from climate change and the disruption it threatens to affluent lifestyles; the other tries to imagine new forms of community, and radical change, but struggles to locate a genre adequate to the task.
It in this struggle, however, that we begin to glimpse the outlines of an emergent near future form: a revolution fit for the Anthropocene.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/12/2022
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- ISBN:9781009279888
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/12/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009279888
