Böhm-Schnitker N (2023)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2023
Book Volume: 10
Pages Range: 37-62
Journal Issue: 1
DOI: 10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2023/10/002
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.
APA:
Böhm-Schnitker, N. (2023). Multiscalar Temporalities in Postcolonial Climate Fiction. English Literature, 10(1), 37-62. https://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2023/10/002
MLA:
Böhm-Schnitker, Nadine. "Multiscalar Temporalities in Postcolonial Climate Fiction." English Literature 10.1 (2023): 37-62.
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