Long description:

Essays on teaching the global climate crisis through cli-fi

Over the past several decades, writers such as Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Octavia E. Butler, and Kathy Jetn?il-Kijiner have explored climate change through literature, reflecting current anxieties about humans' impact on the planet. Emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinarity, this volume embraces literature as a means to cultivate students' understanding of the ongoing climate crisis, ethics in times of disaster, and the intrinsic intersectionality of environmental issues.

Contributors discuss speculative climate futures, the Anthropocene, postcolonialism, climate anxiety, and the usefulness of storytelling in engaging with catastrophe. The essays offer approaches to teaching interdisciplinary and cross-listed courses, including strategies for team-teaching across disciplines and for building connections between humanities majors and STEM majors. The volume concludes with essays that explore ways to address grief and to contemplate a hopeful future in the face of apocalyptic predictions.

This volume contains discussions of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Year of the Flood, Paulo Bacigalupi's "Pocketful of Dharma," Chantal Bilodeau's Sila, Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, Michel Faber's Under the Skin, Kathy Jetn?il-Kijiner's "Dear Matafele Peinam" and "Two Degrees," Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior, Elizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks, Mayra Montero's In the Palm of Darkness, M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!, Richard Powers's The Overstory, Nathaniel Rich's Odds against Tomorrow, Virginia Woolf's Orlando, and more.

"[Helps] students make connections between the Anthropocene and histories of colonization, racism, exploitation, and extraction." ?Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

Table of Contents:

Introduction, by Debra J. Rosenthal

Part I: Principles

Climate Justice and the Literary Imagination, by Stef Craps

Engaging Students and Global Weirding, by Andrew Hageman

Toward a Critical Environmental Justice Pedagogy, by April Anson

Changing Student Perceptions through Climate Literature, by Ted Martinez

Cli-Fi and Cultivating Cultural Agency, by Stephen Siperstein

Climate Change Stories: Living and Dying in the Anthropocene, by Jo Alyson Parker

The Anthropocene as a Global Coming-of-Age Story: A Pedagogy in Transition, by Sofia Ahlberg

Apprehending Climate Change through Fiction and Film, by Matt Burkhart

Part II: Locations

Sea-Level Rise, Low-Lying Islands, and Caribbean Lit er a ture, by Christina Gerhardt

Decolonizing Climate Knowledge: Kathy Jetn?il-Kijiner's Poetry, by Clare Echterling

Sounding the Alarm of Climate Change in Caribbean Literature: Mayra Montero's In the Palm of Darkness, by Mary Ann Gosser-Esquilín

The Polymedial Aesthetics of Climate Change Drama, by Nassim W. Balestrini

Climate Change Narratives, Publics, and the Professional-Managerial Class, by Parker Krieg

Words in the World: The Work of an Environmental Literature Course in a Coastal Florida City, by Thomas Hallock

Part III: Texts

Attention, Connection, Dialogue: Teaching Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior in the Climate Fiction Classroom, by Magdalena Mączyńska

Contemporary US Climate Fiction, by Teresa A. Goddu

Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood as Cli-Fi, by Robert P. Marzec

Cli-Nofi: Reading and Writing Creative Climate Nonfiction in a Prison Classroom, by Jason de Lara Molesky

Genres of Deep Time: Virginia Woolf's Orlando and the Orbis Hypothesis, by Aaron Rosenberg

Part IV: Courses and Interdisciplinarity

It's the End of the World As We Know It: Utilizing Interdisciplinarity to Teach Anthropocene Literature, by Hannah Kroonblawd

"It Will Take Years for the Picture to Emerge": Interdisciplinarity, Intermedia Strategies, and Climate Narratives, by Patrick Whitmarsh

Reading the Weather: Teaching the Literature of Climate Change at a Polytechnic University, by Cynthia Schoolar Williams

Imagining Just Futures: Teaching the Literature of Climate Change as Social Responsibility, by Ali Brox

Cli-Fi Linked to a Climate Science Course, by Debra J. Rosenthal and Jeffrey Johansen

Climate Fiction and the Global South, by Ben Jamieson Stanley and Emily S. Davis

Part V: Assignments

Tuning In to Climate Change: Podcasts in the Classroom, by Orchid Tierney

The Literature of Climate Change and Information Literacy Instruction, by Melissa Anderson

Noticing, Time, and Angling: A Climate Change Syllabus, by Barbara Leckie

Possible Futures in a Warming World: Teaching Climate Models and Other Climate Fictions, by Tobias Menely

Part VI: Hopefulness and Beyond

Finding Hope in Climate Literature: Solastalgia, Twilight Knowing, and Unintended Consequences, by Kathryn Prince

Ruin, Rebellion, Remaking: Environmental Justice in the Literature of Climate Change, by Brianna R. Burke

Now What? Moving Past Climate Change Anxiety in an Interdisciplinary Community College Classroom, by Ria Banerjee

Creative Responses to Climate Doom: Lessons from the Void, by Rick Van Noy

Stories from Our Future: Beyond the Binary of Climate Hope and Grief, by Jennifer Atkinson

Afterword: The Urgency of Slow Teaching, by Sarah Jaquette Ray

Notes on Contributors