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Project

Imagining Climate Change: Fiction, Memory, and the Anthropocene
Code
3G033416
Duration
01 January 2016 → 31 December 2019
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
anthropocene memory climate change fiction
 
Project description
 

This project explores how imaginative literature has responded to the representational and existential challenges posed by climate change. Consisting of a formalist, a historicist, and a postcolonial strand, it combines theoretical argument with case studies of Anglophone literary texts exemplifying major trends in climate fiction or “cli-fi,” particularly to do with issues of memory.