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Climate Change Fiction: A Keyword in Critical Theory
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Foreign Literature   ·   2024年9月7日   ·   2024年 第1期  
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Climate change fiction, also known as climate fiction, is a literary form that reflects climate change and its impacts. It critically responds to climate change issues in the context of the Anthropocene, depicting the contours of society, politics, ethics, and emotions. This literary genre originated in the mid-20th century and gradually integrated into science fiction, becoming a significant phenomenon in the 21st century. The academic community has a strong interest in its research, exploring core issues such as scale effects, agency performance, and the relationship between humans and nature. The rise of climate change novels is closely related to their real-life foundations, contextual factors, and critical motivations. This article aims to explore their development, literary context, and complex relationship with human cultural society.

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The rise of climate change novels is closely related to the impact of human activities on the Earth's climate, geology, and ecological composition, marking the beginning of the Anthropocene period for humanity. Climate change is not only a physical phenomenon, but also deeply reflects the complexity and uncertainty of human society and modern thinking. Scholars believe that the climate crisis is a complex interplay of social discourse, cultural narratives, consumerism, capitalism, and other factors. Climate change novels, as a literary phenomenon, reflect the cognitive fractures, ethical anxieties, and aesthetic challenges of the human world.

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Climate change novels explore the contradiction between climate change and capitalist time culture by depicting extreme climate events, redefining the interaction between humans and non-human beings, and questioning the binary opposition between humans and nature. These works not only reflect the living conditions of the human world, but also involve political, economic, cultural, and psychological aspects. They start from the phenomenon of climate change, explore its complexity, and connect it with social, cultural, and real-life contexts, reflecting on concepts such as capitalism, rationality, and progress. In terms of creative methods, these novels challenge traditional linear thinking and narrative, proposing new imaginations of non binary oppositions and decentralized relationships between humans and non humans. Future research should consider diverse factors such as nationality, race, and identity, as well as absorb theoretical discourses such as ecological criticism, climate change criticism, and ecological narratology, in order to deepen the understanding of climate change novels.

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