Full Description
Essays on teaching the global climate crisis through cli-fi.
Over the past several decades, writers such as Paolo Bacigalupi, Octavia E. Butler, Kathy Jetil-Kijiner, and Margaret Atwood have explored climate change through literature, reflecting current anxieties about humans' impact on the planet. Emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinarity, this volume embraces literature as a means to cultivate students' understanding of the ongoing climate crisis, ethics in times of disaster, and the intrinsic intersectionality of environmental issues.
Contributors discuss speculative climate futures, the Anthropocene, postcolonialism, climate anxiety, and the usefulness of storytelling in engaging with catastrophe. The essays offer approaches to teaching interdisciplinary and cross-listed courses, including strategies for team-teaching across disciplines and for building connections between humanities majors and STEM majors. The volume concludes with essays that explore ways to address grief and to contemplate a hopeful future in the face of apocalyptic predictions.
This volume contains discussions of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Year of the Flood, Paulo Bacigalupi's "Pocketful of Dharma," Chantal Bilodeau's Sila, Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, Michel Faber's Under the Skin, Kathy Jetil-Kijiner's "Dear Matafele Peinam" and "Two Degrees," Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior, Elizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks, Mayra Montero's In the Palm of Darkness, M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!, Richard Powers's The Overstory, Nathaniel Rich's Odds against Tomorrow, Virginia Woolf's Orlando, and more.
Contents
Introduction, by Debra J. Rosenthal
Part I: Principles
Climate Justice and the Literary Imagination, by Stef Craps
Engaging Students and Global Weirding, by Andrew Hageman
Toward a Critical Environmental Justice Pedagogy, by April Anson
Changing Student Perceptions through Climate Literature, by Ted Martinez
Cli-Fi and Cultivating Cultural Agency, by Stephen Siperstein
Climate Change Stories: Living and Dying in the Anthropocene, by Jo Alyson Parker
The Anthropocene as a Global Coming-of-Age Story: A Pedagogy in Transition, by Sofia Ahlberg
Apprehending Climate Change through Fiction and Film, by Matt Burkhart
Part II: Locations
Sea-Level Rise, Low-Lying Islands, and Caribbean Lit er a ture, by Christina Gerhardt
Decolonizing Climate Knowledge: Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner's Poetry, by Clare Echterling
Sounding the Alarm of Climate Change in Caribbean Literature: Mayra Montero's In the Palm of Darkness, by Mary Ann Gosser-Esquilín
The Polymedial Aesthetics of Climate Change Drama, by Nassim W. Balestrini
Climate Change Narratives, Publics, and the Professional-Managerial Class, by Parker Krieg
Words in the World: The Work of an Environmental Literature Course in a Coastal Florida City, by Thomas Hallock
Part III: Texts
Attention, Connection, Dialogue: Teaching Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior in the Climate Fiction Classroom, by Magdalena Mączyńska
Contemporary US Climate Fiction, by Teresa A. Goddu
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood as Cli-Fi, by Robert P. Marzec
Cli-Nofi: Reading and Writing Creative Climate Nonfiction in a Prison Classroom, by Jason de Lara Molesky
Genres of Deep Time: Virginia Woolf's Orlando and the Orbis Hypothesis, by Aaron Rosenberg
Part IV: Courses and Interdisciplinarity
It's the End of the World As We Know It: Utilizing Interdisciplinarity to Teach Anthropocene Literature, by Hannah Kroonblawd
"It Will Take Years for the Picture to Emerge": Interdisciplinarity, Intermedia Strategies, and Climate Narratives, by Patrick Whitmarsh
Reading the Weather: Teaching the Literature of Climate Change at a Polytechnic University, by Cynthia Schoolar Williams
Imagining Just Futures: Teaching the Literature of Climate Change as Social Responsibility, by Ali Brox
Cli-Fi Linked to a Climate Science Course, by Debra J. Rosenthal and Jeffrey Johansen
Climate Fiction and the Global South, by Ben Jamieson Stanley and Emily S. Davis
Part V: Assignments
Tuning In to Climate Change: Podcasts in the Classroom, by Orchid Tierney
The Literature of Climate Change and Information Literacy Instruction, by Melissa Anderson
Noticing, Time, and Angling: A Climate Change Syllabus, by Barbara Leckie
Possible Futures in a Warming World: Teaching Climate Models and Other Climate Fictions, by Tobias Menely
Part VI: Hopefulness and Beyond
Finding Hope in Climate Literature: Solastalgia, Twilight Knowing, and Unintended Consequences, by Kathryn Prince
Ruin, Rebellion, Remaking: Environmental Justice in the Literature of Climate Change, by Brianna R. Burke
Now What? Moving Past Climate Change Anxiety in an Interdisciplinary Community College Classroom, by Ria Banerjee
Creative Responses to Climate Doom: Lessons from the Void, by Rick Van Noy
Stories from Our Future: Beyond the Binary of Climate Hope and Grief, by Jennifer Atkinson
Afterword: The Urgency of Slow Teaching, by Sarah Jaquette Ray
Notes on Contributors
