Trails of Erasure

Imagining the reality of co-migrations in contemporary climate fiction

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ID21722375
AuthorsNadine Boehm-Schnitker (Friedrich-Alexander-University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume28
Issue3
Pages160-175
Publication date2024-07-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGreen Letters (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-8417 • E-ISSN: 2168-1414
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14688417.2024.2354165
OpenAlexW4399276122
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

In this article, I am going to trace ‘trails of erasure’ in two contemporary novels that introduce a wider trend in climate fiction: Firstly, both Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour (2012) and Charlotte McConaghy’s Migrations (2020) indicate a tendency to envision temporalities that render climate threats more imminent and, secondly, both novels imagine spatialities that align human and non-human forms of migration. Thus, they closely connect human and non-human ways of coping with climate change, which may be considered a form of deep adaptation to our current climate crisis. However, they not only challenge but also reinscribe problematic gender and class discourses in the process

Aesthetics · Art · Environmental ethics · Erasure · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction

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