Multiscalar Temporalities in Postcolonial Climate Fiction

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_15268
dc.title	Multiscalar Temporalities in Postcolonial Climate Fiction
dc.contributor.author	Böhm-Schnitker Nadine
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/english-literature/2023/10/multiscalar-temporalities-in-postcolonial-climate/
dc.description.abstract	In the context of postcolonial ecocriticism and environmental time studies, I analyse different but interrelated scenes of confrontations between human history, ‘generational time’, deep time and myth to highlight a trend towards multiscalar temporalities in Anglophone climate fiction. Co-reading Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2004), Gun Island (2019) and Mahasweta Devi’s “Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay and Pirtha” ([1989] 1995), I focus on the texts’ multi-generational character constellations and their specific confrontations with geological time to reveal the literary strategies to capture the “slow violence” (Nixon 2011, 2) of global warming.
dc.relation.ispartof	English Literature
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 10 \| December 2023
dc.issued	2024-02-05
dc.dateAccepted	2023-11-24
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-09-14
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2420-823X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2023/10/002
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Amitav Ghosh
dc.subject	Biosemiotics
dc.subject	Ecocriticism
dc.subject	Ethicology
dc.subject	Gun Island
dc.subject	Mahasweta Devi
dc.subject	Multiscalar temporalities
dc.subject	New materialism
dc.subject	The Hungry Tide

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Nadine Böhm-Schnitker Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

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abstract

In the context of postcolonial ecocriticism and environmental time studies, I analyse different but interrelated scenes of confrontations between human history, ‘generational time’, deep time and myth to highlight a trend towards multiscalar temporalities in Anglophone climate fiction. Co-reading Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2004), Gun Island (2019) and Mahasweta Devi’s “Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay and Pirtha” ([1989] 1995), I focus on the texts’ multi-generational character constellations and their specific confrontations with geological time to reveal the literary strategies to capture the “slow violence” (Nixon 2011, 2) of global warming.

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Feb. 5, 2024

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Nov. 24, 2023

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Sept. 14, 2023

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Keywords: Multiscalar temporalities • Amitav Ghosh • New materialism • Mahasweta Devi • The Hungry Tide • Ethicology • Biosemiotics • Ecocriticism • Gun Island

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