tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628199365429496193.post7949381518224697936..comments2024-03-25T10:54:05.532-07:00Comments on Chimeras: Something out there: if we don't have a narrative of the future, we will have no futureUgo Bardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18231859786466899924noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628199365429496193.post-14281057611485660492016-11-25T20:36:43.725-08:002016-11-25T20:36:43.725-08:00
The article focuses on the psychological dimensio...<br />The article focuses on the psychological dimensions of readers’ engagements with dystopian young adult climate fiction, arguing that the mental simulation of a fictional climate-changed world can offer much more than simple entertainment or escapism. Instead, it might impact teenagers’ understanding of the social, economic and ecological risks associated with climate change. The article builds on research in the psychology of fiction in its examination of the narrative strategies of Paolo Bacigalupi’s YA cli-fi novel Ship Breaker. It demonstrates how the novel invites young readers to an imaginary and yet embodied experience of a dystopian future world that may wish to avoid.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> (forthcoming in a special issue of Textual Practice on ““Fiction in the Age of Risk,” edited by. Golnar Nabizadeh and Tony Hughes-D’Aeth)DANIELBLOOMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130493903696077379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628199365429496193.post-76728334863827759802016-11-25T15:22:39.778-08:002016-11-25T15:22:39.778-08:00I completely agree with your premise. I watched a ...I completely agree with your premise. I watched a new Australian movie at the cinema last night which was visually sumptuous but spiritually adolescent, and on the way home my wife and I discussed how often modern stories are so trite. I'm writing a novel at the moment which is semi-science fiction and hopefully will rip the veil from our current fantasies of progress and modernity. We'll see! I see it as a transitional piece of literature but we are the transitional generation. No point in writing for some audience yet unborn when we're still struggling to understand ourselves. Lloyd Morcomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10480434159688352150noreply@blogger.com