EWL 319 Narrating Climate Change
This class introduces students to the emerging phenomena of climate change cinema and climate change fiction (“cli-fi”) in order to see how contemporary writers and filmmakers are responding to the environmental and social crises of climate change. We will read novels and short stories by authors who imagine the scientific, social, and psychological consequences of climate change (including works by Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Barbara Kingsolver, Kim Stanley Robinson, Colson Whitehead, and others). We will also analyze films and visual art that grapples with the same subject. Our goal will be to understand the unique representational challenges posed by climate change, as well as to examine the role literature and art can play in climate change activism. We will focus in particular on questions of urban ecology and climate justice. AIP CP
Cross Listed Courses
Same as
ENV 319