Verfasst von:	Sergeant, David [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	The near future in twenty-first-century fiction
Titelzusatz:	climate, retreat and revolution
Verf.angabe:	David Sergeant, University of Plymouth
Verlagsort:	Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore
Verlag:	Cambridge University Press
Jahr:	2023
Umfang:	ix, 227 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Diagramme
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture
Fussnoten:	Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 204-219
ISBN:	978-1-009-27988-8
	978-1-009-27992-5
Abstract:	"A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an increasing amount of fiction being set there. But what do these disparate works have in common, other than their temporal setting? And what can the imagination of the near future tell us about where we live now? The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction ranges across novels and films to reveal how our contemporary near future splits between two divergent paths. One seeks to retreat from climate change and the disruption it threatens to affluent lifestyles; the other tries to imagine new forms of community, and radical change, but struggles to locate a genre adequate to the task. It in this struggle, however, that we begin to glimpse the outlines of an emergent near future form: a revolution fit for the Anthropocene"--
DOI:	doi:10.1017/9781009279901
URL:	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009279901
Schlagwörter:	(s)Klimaänderung <Motiv>    / (s)Zukunft <Motiv>    / (s)Science-Fiction-Literatur    / (z)Geschichte 2000-
	(s)Literatur    / (s)Klimaänderung <Motiv>    / (z)Geschichte 2000-
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Sergeant, David, 1979-: Near future in 21st century fiction. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023
	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Sergeant, David, 1979 - : The near future in twenty-first-century fiction. - Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2023. - 1 online resource (ix, 227 pages)
RVK-Notation:	EC 1879
Sach-SW:	Literary criticism
K10plus-PPN:	181542771X