The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9781009279918
ISBN-13 : 1009279912
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Book Synopsis The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction by : David Sergeant

Download or read book The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction written by David Sergeant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an increasing amount of fiction being set there. But what do these disparate works have in common, other than their temporal setting? And what can the imagination of the near future tell us about where we live now? The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction ranges across novels and films to reveal how our contemporary near future splits between two divergent paths. One seeks to retreat from climate change and the disruption it threatens to affluent lifestyles; the other tries to imagine new forms of community, and radical change, but struggles to locate a genre adequate to the task. It in this struggle, however, that we begin to glimpse the outlines of an emergent near future form: a revolution fit for the Anthropocene.


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