A Fictional Risk Narrative and Its Potential for Social Resonance: Reception of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups
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Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel . Hrsg. / Sina Farzin; Susan Gaines; Ros Haynes. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021. S. 218-248 10 (AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series; Band 7).
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T1 - A Fictional Risk Narrative and Its Potential for Social Resonance: Reception of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups
AU - Fücker, Sonja
AU - Auguscik, Anna
AU - Kirchhofer, Anton
AU - Schimank, Uwe
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior is one of the most prominent examples in the “currently emerging genre of the climate change novel” (Mayer 2014, 24; see also Trexler and Johns-Putra 2011). Published in 2012, it offers a complex comment on contemporary US-American risk discourses about climate change. Science, as represented in the novel, figures as a detector of ecological risks. At the same time, scientists are shown to lack the capacity for effectively communicating this knowledge to the general public. By representing science and scientists in this way, the novel may itself be read as taking on the task of informing...
AB - Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior is one of the most prominent examples in the “currently emerging genre of the climate change novel” (Mayer 2014, 24; see also Trexler and Johns-Putra 2011). Published in 2012, it offers a complex comment on contemporary US-American risk discourses about climate change. Science, as represented in the novel, figures as a detector of ecological risks. At the same time, scientists are shown to lack the capacity for effectively communicating this knowledge to the general public. By representing science and scientists in this way, the novel may itself be read as taking on the task of informing...
KW - Literature studies
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/a6ec91de-93e0-30ea-b67d-8e2531025c6c/
U2 - 10.5325/j.ctv1mvw8k2.14
DO - 10.5325/j.ctv1mvw8k2.14
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-0-271-08978-2
T3 - AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series
SP - 218
EP - 248
BT - Under the Literary Microscope
A2 - Farzin, Sina
A2 - Gaines, Susan
A2 - Haynes, Ros
PB - Pennsylvania State University Press
CY - University Park
ER -