SubStance, 2023-01, Vol.52 (3), p.45-63
2023
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Unruly Microcosms in Contemporary Eco-Fiction
- Ist Teil von
- SubStance, 2023-01, Vol.52 (3), p.45-63
- Ort / Verlag
- Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2023
- Quelle
- Literature Online (LION)
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- This article theorizes the disruptive epistemic work performed by microcosms in recent eco-fiction. Contemporary fiction often explores large-scale ecological disruption through smaller organisms and environments, enabling readers to perceive the Earth through analogy, allegory and metaphor. Within and against this scale-free reading, I argue that the microcosm has become a fracturing trope that troubles relations between scales. Drawing on fiction by T. C. Boyle, A. S. Byatt, Amitav Ghosh, Ali Smith, and Karen Tei Yamashita, I read the microcosm as a critical tool of Anthropocene awareness, because it foregrounds and questions scalar collapse –the epistemic projection of one scale onto another.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0049-2426, 1527-2095eISSN: 1527-2095DOI: 10.1353/sub.2023.a913890Titel-ID: cdi_hal_primary_oai_HAL_hal_04522814v1
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- Schlagworte
- 21st century, American literature, Anthropomorphism, Boyle, T Coraghessan, British & Irish literature, Byatt, A S (1936-2023), Climate change, Contemporary literature, Earth, Ecosystems, English literature, Environmental Sciences, Epistemology, Fiction, Geology, Ghosh, Amitav, Humanities and Social Sciences, Hypotheses, Narratives, Novels, Pakistani literature, Perceptions, Poetics, Scalarity (Semantics), Science fiction & fantasy, Scottish literature, Smith, Ali (1962- ), Yamashita, Karen Tei (1951- )