The Great Displacement
Reading Migration Fiction at the End of the World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20248707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben De Bruyn (0000-0003-0128-9021, UCLouvain, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/h9010025 |
| OpenAlex | W3009281935 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 27 |
This paper examines how contemporary works of fiction and nonfiction reflect on anticipated cases of climate dislocation. Building on existing research about migrant agency, climate fiction, and human rights, it traces the contours of climate migration discourse before analyzing how three twenty-first-century novels enable us to reimagine the “great displacement” beyond simplistic militarized and humanitarian frames. Zooming in on stories by Mohsin Hamid, John Lanchester, and Margaret Drabble that envision hypothetical calamities while responding to present-day refugee “crises”, this paper explains how these texts interrogate apocalyptic narratives by demilitarizing borderscapes, exploring survivalist mindsets, and interrogating shallow appeals to empathy
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · History · Law · Psychology · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
Climate change and migration
Pacific Seascapes of the Anthropocene
Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies
Introduction
A Posthuman Approach to BrexLit and Bordering Practices through an Analysis of John Lanchester’s The Wall
The modern knowledge women's dilemma and vision
Parables for planetary crisis
Anthropocene Fictions
Anthropocene Reading
Living in Denial
The Influence of Climate Fiction
The Great Derangement
Realism 4°. Objects, weather and infrastructure in Ben Lerner’s 10
The Predicament of Humanitarianism
Climate Barbarians at the Gate? A critique of apocalyptic narratives on ‘climate refugees’
Climate Change and the Art of Anticipatory Memory
Europe's failed ‘fight’ against irregular migration
From climate migration to anthropocene mobilities
Pluralising Climate Change and Migration
Shelter Writing
Suffering Agency
Refugee Voices
Cognitive Assemblages
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |