Book contents
- Climate and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Climate and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Evolution
- Part III Application
- Chapter 14 The Rise of the Climate Change Novel
- Chapter 15 Climate and History in the Anthropocene: Realist Narrative and the Framing of Time
- Chapter 16 The Future in the Anthropocene: Extinction and the Imagination
- Chapter 17 Climate Criticism and Nuclear Criticism
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 17 - Climate Criticism and Nuclear Criticism
from Part III - Application
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 July 2019
- Climate and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Climate and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Evolution
- Part III Application
- Chapter 14 The Rise of the Climate Change Novel
- Chapter 15 Climate and History in the Anthropocene: Realist Narrative and the Framing of Time
- Chapter 16 The Future in the Anthropocene: Extinction and the Imagination
- Chapter 17 Climate Criticism and Nuclear Criticism
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter discusses the relationship between nuclear literature and criticism on the one hand and climate fiction and criticism on the other. It demonstrates, first, a long-standing preoccupation in nuclear texts with weather and climate, suggesting that nuclear literature might usefully be considered a special subcategory of climate fiction. It then deals with a thriving - and relatively new - tradition of nuclear criticism and theory. It shows how, by opening up three key problematics (nuclear geographies, nuclear temporalities, and nuclear subjectivities), nuclear criticism brings into focus the interdependence of global and local, the significance of deep time, and how humans are produced by their interactions with technology and nature. This critical tradition can feed usefully into an understanding of climate fiction.
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- Climate and Literature , pp. 281 - 297Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019