Abstract
Focusing on American climate change fiction, Chap. “Climate Change Fictions in Context: Socio-Politics, Environmental Discourse and Literature” briefly outlines the socio-politics of climate change and explains its highly controversial role in the United States. This overview is important because it demonstrates that power structures play an important part in defining risks as such and setting risk agendas. The second half of Chap. “Climate Change Fictions in Context: Socio-Politics, Environmental Discourse and Literature” elaborates in greater detail on the formal challenges climate change poses for environmental discourse and, in particular, for ecocritical analysis. Drawing on the genealogy of environmental crisis discourse it identifies those characteristics that make climate change a difficult issue to be communicated. Climate change fiction proves to be insightful in this context because it gives way to the multiple and innovative frameworks of telling contemporary environmental crisis.
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