TY - CHAP
T1 - Meteorology of Form
T2 - From Love Letters to the Planet
AU - Bristow, Thomas
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This study looks at fiction based in Australia, one of many places severely affected by anthropogenic global warming in the Global South. Texts chosen for this chapter (Xavier Herbert’s Capricornia (1939), Gabrielle Lord’s Salt (1990), Ellen Van Neerven’s Heat and Light (2014)) understand aspects of global warming as ‘simultaneously real, discursive, and social’, but also as spaces within the larger arc of climatic history that might incorporate sensitivity to non-human agency as felt in Oceania. This chapter incorporates flashes of fictocriticism to integrate the component of animacy that seeks out affective intensities that pass through and between human and non-human bodies. This genre permits writers to foreground personal meditations on the ongoing experiencing of climate catastrophe, and it discloses a space for dialogue between scholarly abstractions and personal ones. The unfolding cultural story that comes from these impulses is one of witness and embodiment that portends representations of climate as an intra-active being.
AB - This study looks at fiction based in Australia, one of many places severely affected by anthropogenic global warming in the Global South. Texts chosen for this chapter (Xavier Herbert’s Capricornia (1939), Gabrielle Lord’s Salt (1990), Ellen Van Neerven’s Heat and Light (2014)) understand aspects of global warming as ‘simultaneously real, discursive, and social’, but also as spaces within the larger arc of climatic history that might incorporate sensitivity to non-human agency as felt in Oceania. This chapter incorporates flashes of fictocriticism to integrate the component of animacy that seeks out affective intensities that pass through and between human and non-human bodies. This genre permits writers to foreground personal meditations on the ongoing experiencing of climate catastrophe, and it discloses a space for dialogue between scholarly abstractions and personal ones. The unfolding cultural story that comes from these impulses is one of witness and embodiment that portends representations of climate as an intra-active being.
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-companion-to-literature-and-climate/meteorology-of-form/50C98D540AF6F1E8D12A29CF55DEBB62
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-companion-to-literature-and-climate/introduction/510D6C8F02321A3E23785607D17082F5
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-companion-to-literature-and-climate/notes-on-contributors/A9EC3F6A17D685940A15F1C2714A30FE
U2 - 10.1017/9781009057868.016
DO - 10.1017/9781009057868.016
M3 - Chapter
SP - 229
EP - 243
BT - The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate
A2 - Sultzbach, Kelly
A2 - Johns-Putra, Adeline
PB - Cambridge University Press
CY - UK
ER -
