A Sociology of Failure
Migration and Narrative Method in US Climate Fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3856177 |
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| Authors | Bryan Yazell (0000-0002-2263-3488, Ministry of Culture, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155-180 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Configurations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1801 • E-ISSN: 1080-6520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/con.2020.0009 |
| OpenAlex | W3024511864 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
This paper identifies what it terms a sociology of failure at work in American climate fiction novels dealing with the subject of climate-induced migration within the United States. Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife and Claire Vaye Watkins’s Gold Fame Citrus exemplify this trend inasmuch as their accounts of future climate migrants derive from outdated migrant typologies. Drawing from C. Wright Mills’s Sociological Imagination and Kim Stanley Robinson’s “ease of representation,” this essay argues such cases call attention to the imaginative failure that characterizes public understandings of climate migration in particular. Ultimately, this account identifies the sociological methods within cli-fi that mark imaginative failure as a problem both in-text and for readers of these texts
Art · Epistemology · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · History · Philosophy · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
Imagining the Future of Climate Change
Imaginary politics
The Great Derangement
The sociological imagination
What Triggers Public Opposition to Immigration? Anxiety, Group Cues, and Immigration Threat
Close but not Deep
Progress Versus Utopia; or, Can We Imagine the Future
Dystopian literature and the sociological imagination
Introduction
| Highly cited | No |
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