Add to ORKGDue to contemporary experiences of climate crisis, large-scale migration and global ruptures such as the spread of the corona virus, futurity has become newly problematized both in public discourse and in critical discussions in literary and cultural studies. This article argues that literary texts contribute to the re-negotiation of futurity for the cultural needs of the present. It applies an original analytical perspective of ‘sensing the future’ to two contemporary Anglophone novels, Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) and Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon (2014). Sensing the future refers to the creative labor that the novels perform which enables an imaginative entering of the future into the present. The article discusses how these fictions take...
In search of new literary voices that might present an answer to Amitav Ghosh’s 2016 lament on the f...
Some of the principle questions that my dissertation addresses are: How can literature be used to th...
This book examines the experience of time functions in a specific set of British novels to reveal th...
Futures examines the relevance of futures studies to literary and social studies. It demonstrates ho...
Scholars in ecocriticism have frequently argued that the environmental crisis calls for an overhaul ...
This dissertation interrogates the interconnections between catastrophe and globality in contemporar...
According to Fredric Jameson’s critique of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism, o...
Possibly the most compelling argument for a literary study integrating fiction and the critique of c...
European science policy (so-called Horizon 2020) is guided by Grand Societal Challenges (GSCs) with ...
his article focuses on the evocation of children’s experiences in fiction that engages with postapoc...
This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apo...
Climate change is becoming a major theme in the contemporary novel, as authors reflect concerns in ...
While rumors of the imminent death of the novel are everywhere, this book shows how some of our most...
Specifically addressing the environmental turn of recent dystopian fiction, this thesis investigates...
Forward Thinking considers how to think about the future in a time that doubts it will occur. It add...
In search of new literary voices that might present an answer to Amitav Ghosh’s 2016 lament on the f...
Some of the principle questions that my dissertation addresses are: How can literature be used to th...
This book examines the experience of time functions in a specific set of British novels to reveal th...
Futures examines the relevance of futures studies to literary and social studies. It demonstrates ho...
Scholars in ecocriticism have frequently argued that the environmental crisis calls for an overhaul ...
This dissertation interrogates the interconnections between catastrophe and globality in contemporar...
According to Fredric Jameson’s critique of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism, o...
Possibly the most compelling argument for a literary study integrating fiction and the critique of c...
European science policy (so-called Horizon 2020) is guided by Grand Societal Challenges (GSCs) with ...
his article focuses on the evocation of children’s experiences in fiction that engages with postapoc...
This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apo...
Climate change is becoming a major theme in the contemporary novel, as authors reflect concerns in ...
While rumors of the imminent death of the novel are everywhere, this book shows how some of our most...
Specifically addressing the environmental turn of recent dystopian fiction, this thesis investigates...
Forward Thinking considers how to think about the future in a time that doubts it will occur. It add...
In search of new literary voices that might present an answer to Amitav Ghosh’s 2016 lament on the f...
Some of the principle questions that my dissertation addresses are: How can literature be used to th...
This book examines the experience of time functions in a specific set of British novels to reveal th...