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

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Superior document:New Comparisons in World Literature Series
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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)
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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.