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<\/a>climoji by Nichole Duncan<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
During the Fall 2018 semester, I taught a course on the emerging literary genre called \u201cCli-Fi\u201d (or climate fiction). The course examined\u00a0short stories, novels, films, and various other forms of narrative fiction that concern themselves with climate change or global warming. Our discussions centered upon the various narrative strategies through which a number of\u00a0late-twentieth and twenty-first century works (such as Octavia Butler\u2019s The Parable of the Sower<\/em>, Margaret Atwood\u2019s Oryx and Crake<\/em>, Cormac McCarthy\u2019s The Road<\/em>, and Jeff Vandermeer\u2019s Annihilation<\/em>, among others) approach the environmental crises and social problems generated by a rapidly warming planet.<\/p>\n For their final assignments, students in the course produced their own \u201ccli-fi.\u201d The results were so exciting, I asked a number of students in the class for permission to publish their stories here. I have selected a stories that represented the variety of narrative strategies\u2013 not just conventional narrative, but a podcast, text messages, voicemails, film, and satire\u2013 the students employed. These stories also take up\u00a0a number of themes and tropes\u2014 social breakdown, displacement, \u00a0flooding, resource scarcity, the ravages of capitalism, techno-utopianism, and more\u2014central to many of the works of cli-fi we discussed over the course of the semester. This collection therefore represents both the students\u00a0engagement with the genre conventions of climate fiction as well as their own interest in grappling imaginatively with the urgencies of climate change.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.19″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.19″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19″ text_font=”||||||||” link_font=”||||||||” link_text_color=”#1eb27e”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.19″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.19″ admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.19″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19″] During the Fall 2018 semester, I taught a course on the emerging literary genre called \u201cCli-Fi\u201d (or climate fiction). The course examined\u00a0short stories, novels, films, and various other forms of narrative fiction that concern themselves with climate change or global warming. Our discussions centered upon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"[caption id=\"attachment_4509\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"250\"]\n
\u201cThe City of Rot\u201d <\/a>by Nichole Duncan<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cThe Ocean\u201d <\/a>by Spencer Bald<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cEarth Artifacts: Coral Reefs\u201d<\/a> by Jared Lane<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cSunken\u201d <\/a>by Danielle Osborn<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cSo Long Land\u201d<\/a> by Collin Olson<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cThe Incalculable Malice of the Everyday\u201d<\/a> by Kyle Phillips<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cA New Place\u201d<\/a> by Sean Ayres<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cEco Act\u201d <\/a>by Nicholas Drabant<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cCarbon Spike\u201d<\/a> by Lauren Ramer<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cMachine Messiah\u201d<\/a> by Jaymes Schutz<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cEvent 3\u201d<\/a> by Saeben Haverington<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
<\/a> climoji by Nichole Duncan[\/caption]\n\nDuring the Fall 2018 semester, I taught a course on the emerging literary genre called \"Cli-Fi\"<\/a> (or climate fiction). The course examined\u00a0short stories, novels, films, and various other forms of narrative fiction that concern themselves with climate change or global warming. Our discussions centered upon the various narrative strategies through which a number of\u00a0late-twentieth and twenty-first century works (such as Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower<\/em>, Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake<\/em>, Cormac McCarthy's The Road<\/em>, and Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation<\/em>, among others) approach the environmental crises and social problems generated by a rapidly warming planet.\n\nFor their final assignments, students in the course produced their own \"cli-fi.\" The results were so exciting, I asked a number of students in the class for permission to publish their stories here. I have selected a stories that represented the variety of narrative strategies-- not just conventional narrative, but a podcast, text messages, voicemails, film, and satire-- the students employed. These stories also take up\u00a0a number of themes and tropes\u2014 social breakdown, displacement, \u00a0flooding, resource scarcity, the ravages of capitalism, techno-utopianism, and more\u2014central to many of the works of cli-fi we discussed over the course of the semester. This collection therefore represents both the students\u00a0engagement with the genre conventions of climate fiction as well as their own interest in grappling imaginatively with the urgencies of climate change.","footnotes":""},"categories":[87,30],"tags":[90,88,89],"class_list":["post-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-table-of-contents","category-uncategorized","tag-clifi","tag-climate-fiction","tag-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4575,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions\/4575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}