(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction

(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction

Doomsday Clock Narratives

Oramus, Dominika

Taylor & Francis Ltd

11/2024

162

Mole

9781032468938

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INTRODUCTION: Doomsday Clock Narratives

Chapter I Anticipating Disasters: Anxieties and Traumas

- Eco-Anxiety and Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome

- Pre-Traumatic Stress: the Psychoanalytical Perspective

Chapter II Writing about Disasters: Metaphors and Parables

- Geological Metaphors

- Parables of Nature and Symbolic Timepieces

Chapter III Disaster Fantasies: Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction

- Disaster Story Tradition

- Nuclear Holocaust Fiction

- Climate Fiction

Chapter IV 'Maybe it's a period of grace': Mid-Twentieth-Century Nuclear Holocaust Fiction in the Hands of Nevil Shute and Walter M. Miller

- Nevil Shute On the Beach

- Walter M. Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz

Chapter V 'Imposing fantasies on the changing landscape:' the Visions of John Christopher, J.G. Ballard and George Turner

- John Christopher The World in Winter

- J.G. Ballard The Drought

- George Turner The Sea and Summer

Chapter VI 'I wonder how much longer we have:' Recent Climate Fiction from the Pens of Maggie Gee, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ruth Ozeki and Yoko Tawada

- Maggie Gee The Ice People

- Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl

- Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being

- Yoko Tawada The Last Children of Tokyo

CONCLUSION: Reading Climate Anxiety Through the Lens of a Nuclear Holocaust

- The Uses of Doomsday Clock Narratives

- Fallout and Flood

-"We," the Readers of Doomsday Clock Narratives
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Climate;Climate Fiction;Eco;Doomsday;Climate Anxiety