Fikcje antropocenu. Literatura XXI wieku wobec katastrofy klimatycznej
Anthropocene fictions. Representations of climate catastrophe in the twenty-first-century literature

Summary/Abstract: This article explores narrative trajectories of conceptualizing climate change in modern literature. The main goal is to extend frames of Anthropocene fiction beyond science fiction genre in novels written in the twenty-first century. Taking humanistic approach to climate crisis as a starting point, the article concentrates on strand of literature based on realistic convention that presents planetary crisis not as futuristic phantasy but as contemporary process. Drawing on the work of Richard Powers, Maja Lunde, Charlotte McConaghy, Barbara Kingsolver, Sigriđur Hagalin Björnsdóttir, and Hanya Yanagihara, I argue that thay create subgenre od climate fiction that present planetary catastrophe in non-spectacular and unconventional way to regain affective power of literature and provoke imagination. Another important aspect is narrative construction of time in their novels, which concentrate on compering different moments in planetary chronology to present human kind as one of many episodes in process of life shaping on Earth and thereby to challenge anthropocentric approach to problem of climate change.

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