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The Literature of Climate Crisis

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ABOUT THE COURSE:This course is a survey of the literature of climate crisis. Focusing principally on poetry, fiction and graphic novels from the 1990s (when ‘climate change’ enters the public discourse following the first Earth Summit), it provides an introduction to the aesthetics, form and politics of environmental literature from around the world. It concludes with a section on environmental justice.INTENDED AUDIENCE: Literary Studies scholars

Syllabus

Week 1: Introduction : The Literature of Climate Crisis
Lesson 1: Why Literature in the age of Climate Crisis?
Lesson 2: ‘Environmentality’
Lesson 3: Forms of Environmental Literature 1 (Fiction)
Lesson 4: Forms of Environmental Literature 2 (Poetry)
Lesson 5: Forms of Environmental Literature 3 (Ecoapocalypse Fiction)
Week 2:Pluvial Writings
Lesson 1: Catastrophic Realism and the Hydronovel
Lesson 2: The Desert Novel
Lesson 3: Postcolonial Hydrogothic
Lesson 4: The Pluvial Novel
Lesson 5: Group Discussion
Week 3:The Wild and the Feral
Lesson 1: The Idea of Wilderness
Lesson 2: Carnal Geographies
Lesson 3: Ferality & Human Civilization
Lesson 4: Feral Childhoods
Lesson 5: The Postnatural Condition
Week 4:Extinction
Lesson 1: The Extinction Sublime
Lesson 2: Ecological Modernity
Lesson 3: Extinction and Nostalgia 1
Lesson 4: Extinction and Nostalgia 2
Lesson 5: Rewilding
Week 5:Multispecies Writing
Lesson 1: Creaturescapes
Lesson 2 : Cross-species Exchanges 1
Lesson 3: Cross-species Exchanges 2
Lesson 4: The Biomutation Narrative
Lesson 5: The Humanimal
Week 6:Poetry and Climate Crisis
Lesson 1: Habitats and Habitation
Lesson 2: Geopoetics
Lesson 3: Ecological Grief
Lesson 4: The Reenchantment of the World 1
Lesson 5: The Reenchantment of the World 2
Week 7:Environmental Justice 1
Lesson 1: Anticolonialism, Neocolonialism and Poetry
Lesson 2: Waste, Dumping and Poetry
Lesson 3: Nature-Care in Postcolonial Poetry
Lesson 4: The Literature of Extractivism
Lesson 5: Toxified Bodies
Week 8:Environmental Justice 2
Lesson 1: Toxified Habitats 1
Lesson 2: The Neo-Plantation Novel
Lesson 3: The Local, the Particular and the Planetary 1
Lesson 4: The Local, the Particular and the Planetary 2
Lesson 5: Group Discussion

Taught by

Prof. Pramod K. Nayar

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