Alternative Memories in Climate Fiction
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Climate fiction comes forth as a powerful intermediate for revising history and remoulding cultural memory against advancing ecological crisis. Alongside other central texts, this article examines how crucial texts like New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson, The Overstory by Richard Powers, and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood mould alternative memories that upset traditional human-centred narratives. These narratives reenvision memory as ecological, affective, and spread out across species and time through the lenses of memory studies, ecocriticism, and posthumanism. Climate fiction asserts collective amnesia and allows new ethical frameworks for facing the Anthropocene by reconstructing landscapes, technologies, and species into living archives. The objective of this study is to reveal how speculative storytelling is proof of environmental trauma and champions critical reflection and hope, setting up memory as a vital tool for envisaging just and sustainable futures
Author: Abhirup Sarkar
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6949684243
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