Climate Change Futures and the Imagination of the Global in <i>Maeva!</i> by Dirk C. Fleck

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  • Antonia Mehnert PhD Student of the Rachel Carson PhD Program "Environment and Society" at the University of Munich (American Studies Department)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2012.3.2.470

Palabras clave:

eco-cosmopolitismo, cambio climático, ciencia ficción alemana, sociedad del riesgo

Resumen

Este articulo trata de hacer una contribución a la crítica literaria, recién emergente, de novelas de ficción del cambio climático. Confrontados con un desastre global del medioambiente (como el cambio climático) requiere una partida de un sobre-involucramiento en lo "local" que ha dominado la ecocrítica hasta ahora. Explorando también ideas del concepto de eco-cosmopolitismo podría servir para la análisis literaria en este contexto. Sin embargo, muchas novelas sobre el cambio climático han sido criticado por no incluir la perspectiva global. Maeva! del autor alemán de ciencia ficción, Dirk Fleck, es uno de los pocos contraejemplos. Entonces, este articulo analiza como la novela corresponde a un "manifestó eco-cosmopolitismo" y lo presenta como una visión política para proceder en un mundo que va a ser cambiado climáticamente. Empero este 'espacio global' es frágil y disputado mientras que las negociaciones sigan entre lo local y lo transnacional. Al fin, este articulo también discute la manera estética innovadora de Fleck que desafía la categoría de ciencia ficción.

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Biografía del autor/a

Antonia Mehnert, PhD Student of the Rachel Carson PhD Program "Environment and Society" at the University of Munich (American Studies Department)

Antonia Mehnert studied American Studies, Latin-American studies and Economics at the University of Potsdam and the Free University Berlin. During this time she also completed a semester at the University of Seville, Spain and spent several months in the United States and Argentina for various internships in the cultural-political sector. After her graduation she worked as a project coordinator in the context of  “culture and development”. In January 2011 she started working on her dissertation, first in Potsdam, and has now moved to Munich in order to participate in the structured doctoral program "Environment and Society" at the Rachel Carson Center. For her dissertation project, entitled “Literary Imaginaries of Climate Change” she receives a scholarship from the Foundation of German Business.

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Publicado

2012-10-06

Número

Vol. 3 Núm. 2 (2012): The Invention of Eco-Futures

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The Invention of Eco-Futures

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