Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
2022
Abstract
In this essay, we address Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth (2000) and Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003) as climate fiction that plays out equally devastating yet realistic futuristic scenarios. In creative thought experiments, science fiction helps us to recognize humans as a collective force, a force that conquers, shapes, destroys, and rebuilds the planet in pre- and post-apocalyptic bouts not unlike the pre- and post-pandemic times we are now experiencing. Our focus on these two science fiction novels is on the intersectionality of emergent environments, extinctions, and diseases within the framework of climate change.
Publisher
Wehrhahn Verlag
ISBN
978–3–86525–965–3
Repository Citation
Schaumann, Caroline and Sullivan, Heather I., "Disease, Extinction, and Emergences in T.C. Boyle’s Friend of Earth and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake" (2022). Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research. 201.
https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/mll_faculty/201
Publication Information
Book Title- Mensch & Mitwelt Herausforderungen für die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften