[ecrea] Workshop: Between Fact and Fiction - Climate Change Literature

CfP Call for papers
workshop
Between Fact and Fiction - Climate Change Literature
22.04.2016-23.04.2016
Delmenhorst, Germany

Novels and short stories that depict research on climate change and/or 
its ecological and social ramifications have been gaining in prominence. 
Examples are Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior, Nathaniel Rich's Odds 
Against Tomorrow, Michael Crichton's State of Fear, Ian McEwan's Solar, 
Jeannette Winterson's The Stone Goods, Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in 
the Capital Trilogy, as well as the short story anthology I'm with the 
Bears. In the U.S. in recent years, fiction that deals with climate 
change is being discussed in the media under the label "cli-fi" (climate 
fiction) and billed as a genre somewhere between the new lab-lit genre 
and science fiction. Cli-fi is moving into university curriculums and 
generating controversial debates about the function of literature and 
art in the societal reaction to climate change challenges. From a 
sociological perspective, we are interested not so much in the question 
of literary classification as in the (self-)positioning of cli-fi as a boun
 dary genre that picks up literary, scientific, political, and general 
societal discourses and articulates them in a new way.
For further Informations see the attached cfp.

Contact person: Sina Farzin
email: (sina.farzin /at/ wiso.uni-hamburg.de)

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