The American Climate Emergency Narrative : : Origins, Developments and Imaginary Futures.

• Superior document: New Comparisons in World Literature Series
• Author: Höglund, Johan.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: New Comparisons in World Literature Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (227 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: The American Climate Emergency Narrative -- World-System, World-Ecology, Cheap Nature, and Crisis -- Emergency and Securitization -- Cultural Studies in the Capitalocene: The World-Literature Perspective -- Material and Organization -- Works Cited -- 2 Settler Capitalist Frontiers -- The Origins of the Climate Emergency Narrative -- The Settler Capitalist Text -- The Plantation Text -- Emergency in Settler Capitalist Writing and the Plantation Text -- Works Cited -- 3 Fossil Fictions -- Fossil Capitalism and Fossil Fiction -- Coal Frontiers and Coal Insecurities -- The Petrowar Oil Encounter -- Petrowar Fiction -- The American Climate Emergency Petrowar Narrative -- Setting the Stage for the Climate Emergency Narrative -- Works Cited -- 4 The Irradiated -- Cheap War and Nuclear Fictions -- Entering Irradiated Socio-Ecological Futures -- The Arrival of the American Climate Emergency Narrative -- A New Godzilla Rises -- Atomic Emergencies -- Works Cited -- 5 Geopolitics -- Geopolitics in the Capitalocene -- Ecological Erosion and the Future Battlefields of the World-System -- New World-System Hegemons -- Imagining Future War -- Works Cited -- 6 The Displaced -- Displacement, Refuge, and Rupture -- Mobilities, Borders, and the Migrant -- The Migrant as Monstrous Body in the American Climate Emergency Narrative -- The Body in Place -- The Unbearable Whiteness of the American Climate Emergency Narrative -- Displacement and Insecurity -- Works Cited -- 7 Ruins -- The End of the World -- Hell Divers: Capitalism at the Abyss -- The Road: Capitalist Realism in Post-capitalist Futures -- The Dog Stars: Performing Capitalist Border-Making in the Ruins -- A Weakness of the Imagination -- Works Cited -- 8 Fallout Futures.

The Limits of the Capitalist Imagination -- Fallout -- Chthulucene Climate Futures -- Indigenous Climate Pasts and Futures -- A Billion Black Anthropocenes -- Radical Climate Futures -- Rebooting the System -- Works Cited -- Index.