Development of Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi) in the Age of the Anthropocene
摘要
This essay traces the history and development of the new genre of climate fiction (cli-fi) along with the predominant themes, tropes, and images used by cli-fi auteurs to represent the complex and unwieldy phenomena of climate change. The essay also identifies the emerging concerns of cli-fi writers as they imagine futures devastated by climate disasters. It also underlines the utilitarian objective of cli-fi which offers a corrective discourse in view of the impending climate disaster, which impels us to pause and ponder with a view to developing an inclusive understanding of the interrelationship between human and non-human species on this earth. Cultural philosophers such as Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, and Timothy Morton are among the leading figures in the field of developing new concepts to facilitate this kind of thinking which ensures a relatively safer and securer future vis-à-vis multiple species and thereby shunning excessive human-centricity.