Climate Tragedy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13015405 |
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| Authors | Manya Lempert (0000-0002-3530-9900, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 195-213 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2052-2614 • E-ISSN: 2052-2622 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/pli.2020.39 |
| OpenAlex | W4239184328 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
I hypothesize that tragedy is the genre best suited to represent climate catastrophe. Tragedy, I contend, is committed to diagnosing the ideological and material conditions that make for mass, undeserved suffering—conditions of colonization and racialization, for instance, in Greek and modern drama and in modern tragic fiction. Not only does tragedy reveal injurious forms of power, it stages or incites rebellious collective action against them. These features of literary tragedy, I suggest, are non-Aristotelian. Aristotle lodges the source of crisis in individuals, who inadvertently cause their own misfortunes and suffer from them. The literary tragedy that I theorize, however, locates the origins of communal suffering in external agents of death and domination
Action (physics · Art · Drama · Ideology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Tragedy (event · Critical Theory and Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Highly cited | No |
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