Narratives of Resilience in Times of Climate Crisis: Angry Optimism and Utopian Minimalism in Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 and Jenny Offill's Weather
The essay discusses two climate change novels, Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 and Jenny Offill's Weather, as resilience narratives. It argues that these novels – New York 2140 speculating about a possible future, set more than 100 years in the future,Weather engaging our present cult...
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| Main Author: | Sylvia Mayer |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck
2025-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://jaaas.eu/jaaas/article/view/227 |
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