Novel Climates, National Catharsis
Local vs. Global Environmentalism in Californian Cli-Fi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4823262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristin J Jacobson (0000-0001-5906-2765, Literature, Stockton University, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 250-268 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14775700.2022.2095194 |
| OpenAlex | W4283760886 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
California occupies a special place within contemporary American climate fiction and environmental history. It provides the key setting for cli-fi novels such as Edan Lepucki’s California (2014), Claire Vaye Watkins’s Gold Fame Citrus (2015), T.C. Boyle’s When the Killings Done (2011) and A Friend of the Earth (2000), Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife (2015), and Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993). California also plays a key role in fostering the contemporary environmental movement with its stringent, groundbreaking environmental policies and history. California offers a defining trope and shorthand for climate change in the United States and beyond.This survey of California-based cli-fi places California as a flashpoint location for climate change catharsis within the American and global environmental imagination, offering a paradoxical productive and torpifying release. I argue the depictions of California highlight how the climate crisis is always experienced locally, but like ecological or tropic cascade, Californian cli-fi demonstrates repercussions beyond its individual bioregions. As a flashpoint for national climate change catharsis, California inspires change and problematically keeps climate change’s impact at a distant frontier, at least for those who do not live within its borders or who do not have the means to escape
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |