Böhm-Schnitker N (2024)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2024
Book Volume: 28
Pages Range: 160-175
Journal Issue: 3
DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2024.2354165
In this article, I am going to trace ‘trails of erasure’ in two contemporary novels that introduce a wider trend in climate fiction: Firstly, both Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour (2012) and Charlotte McConaghy’s Migrations (2020) indicate a tendency to envision temporalities that render climate threats more imminent and, secondly, both novels imagine spatialities that align human and non-human forms of migration. Thus, they closely connect human and non-human ways of coping with climate change, which may be considered a form of deep adaptation to our current climate crisis. However, they not only challenge but also reinscribe problematic gender and class discourses in the process.
APA:
Böhm-Schnitker, N. (2024). Trails of Erasure: imagining the reality of co-migrations in contemporary climate fiction. Green Letters, 28(3), 160-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2024.2354165
MLA:
Böhm-Schnitker, Nadine. "Trails of Erasure: imagining the reality of co-migrations in contemporary climate fiction." Green Letters 28.3 (2024): 160-175.
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