Abstract
This essay begins by discussing the implications of the Anthropocene for literature and literary criticism, and the part which ecocritics can play in critically analysing cultural representations of our relationship with nature and defining the contribution of imagination, art and writing to the development of a posthuman identity. Reviewing studies of climate fiction in English and German to date, it traces the emergence of climate fiction as a 21st-century genre, and presents a brief overview of 25 German novels published since 1993. Finally, it compares the solutions to problems of form and narrative strategy arrived at by Ilija Trojanow in his lament over our destructive impact on nature in Eistau (2011) with those in Cornelia Franz’s young adult novel, Ins Nordlicht blicken (2012).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene |
| Editors | Caroline Schaumann, Heather Sullivan |
| Place of Publication | Basingstoke, U. K. |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 293-314 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-137-54222-9 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781137559852 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 19 Apr 2017 |
Publication series
| Name | Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Keywords
- climate fiction
- German novel
- Ilija Trojanow
- Cornelia Franz
- anthropocene
Access to Document
- Goodbody-Telling the Story of Climate Change
Goodbody, A., 'Telling the story of climate change: the German novel in the Anthropocene'. In C. Schaumann, & H. Sullivan (Eds.), German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene, pp. 293-314. Basingstoke, U. K.: Palgrave Macmillan. Rerproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.