Anthropocene Realism by John Thieme - 9781350296039

Anthropocene RealismFiction in the Age of Climate Change\nAuthor(s): John Thieme\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350296039, 978-1350296039\nSynopsis\nExamining the challenges faced by novelists writing realist fiction in the age of climate change, this open access book considers the various ways in which contemporary writers have evolved new and transformed modes of realism to grapple with the problems of living on an endangered planet.\n\nFocusing on fiction set in the long present a term used to cover the actual present, the near future and an historic past that interacts with the present Thieme argues that long-present realism negates the possibility of deferring engagement with the climate crisis on the grounds that it is a future threat.\n\nThieme examines work by twelve novelists: Margaret Atwood, James Bradley, Amitav Ghosh, Helon Habila, Liz Jensen, Barbara Kingsolver, Ian McEwan, Richard Po.