Cli-Fi and Class (Epub) von Debra J. Rosenthal

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Class Structure and Resource Extraction

Hadestown and Other Myths for the Anthropocene: Company Towns and Proletarian Traditions in US Climate Fiction / Jason de Lara Molesky

Burnout: Cli-Fi and Exhaustion / Lisa Ottum

Resource Utopia and Dystopia: Excavating Class in Afrofuturist Cli-Fi Film / Martín Premoli and B. Jamieson Stanley

Dreaming a Decolonized Climate: Indigenous Technologies and Relations of Class and Kinship in Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves / Jessica Cory

Part II. Class Differentiation and Climate Risk

Climate-Change Fiction and Poverty Studies: Kingsolver's Flight Behavior, Diaz's "Monstro," and Bacigalupi's "The Tamarisk Hunter" / Debra J. Rosenthal

Learning to Survive: Place-Based Education in Strange as This Weather Has Been and Parable of the Sower / Jennifer Horwitz

Settler Apocalypses: Race, Class, and the Erasure of Indigenous Resilience in Alaskan Cli-Fi / Jennifer Schell

Black: A Speculative Almanac for the End of the World / Kimberly Bain

Part III. Class Privilege and Climate Anxiety

Class and Revolution in the Climate Fictions of Kim Stanley Robinson: Transitions to Postcapitalism / Andrew Milner

Heartland of Darkness: Nostalgia and Class in the Climate Fiction of Paolo Bacigalupi / Jeffrey M. Brown

Whose Odds?: The Absence of Climate Justice in American Climate Fiction of the 2000s and 2010s / Matthew Schneider-Mayerson

Cli-Fi and the Crisis of the Middle Class / Magdalena Maczynska

Homelessness in Lauren Groff's Florida Fiction: Climate Change and Displacement / Teresa A. Goddu

Epilogue: What has Changed Since Anthropocene Fictions? / Adam Trexler

Notes on Contributors

Index