Disaster's memory: the Anthropocene narrative

The coexistence and connection of past, present and future is a core aspect in the books by Filhol and Macfarlane, and already announced in Sebald’s The Ring of Saturn. These writers elaborate and surpass the classic dystopias; the characteristic of their fiction and non-fiction novels consists in r...

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Main Author:	Niccolò Scaffai
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Bologna 2021-07-01
Series:	Griseldaonline
Subjects:	anthropocene ecology disaster narrative
Online Access:	https://griseldaonline.unibo.it/article/view/12941

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spelling	doaj-ad90638f9f4b403d929cff3c1361e93f2021-07-28T08:42:19ZengUniversity of BolognaGriseldaonline1721-47772021-07-01201879610.6092/issn.1721-4777/1294111252Disaster's memory: the Anthropocene narrativeNiccolò Scaffai0Universtià degli Studi di SienaThe coexistence and connection of past, present and future is a core aspect in the books by Filhol and Macfarlane, and already announced in Sebald’s The Ring of Saturn. These writers elaborate and surpass the classic dystopias; the characteristic of their fiction and non-fiction novels consists in retrospectively projecting the image of disaster, not conceiving it only as an expectation or as the starting point of a new era. This prerogative evidently also requires the adoption of narrative forms that leave the codes of apocalyptic narration and the patterns of fiction inspired by that theme.https://griseldaonline.unibo.it/article/view/12941anthropoceneecologydisasternarrative
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title	Disaster's memory: the Anthropocene narrative
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description	The coexistence and connection of past, present and future is a core aspect in the books by Filhol and Macfarlane, and already announced in Sebald’s The Ring of Saturn. These writers elaborate and surpass the classic dystopias; the characteristic of their fiction and non-fiction novels consists in retrospectively projecting the image of disaster, not conceiving it only as an expectation or as the starting point of a new era. This prerogative evidently also requires the adoption of narrative forms that leave the codes of apocalyptic narration and the patterns of fiction inspired by that theme.
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Disaster's memory: the Anthropocene narrative

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