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{"title":"Climate Crises, Ruined Islands, and British Metamodernism","authors":"Emily Arvay","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2023.2268519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2023.2268519","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article contends that popular acceptance of Anthropogenic climate change in early 2000s Britain coincided with cultural efforts to redefine the historical present via transhistorical phenomena through the concretization of deep time. This article therefore situates itself in the historical juncture between the IPCC’s first report (1990) and its fourth (2007) to argue that the climatological, financial and geopolitical crises that coalesced in the 1990s prompted a shift that changed the tenor of British climate fictions published in the 2000s. To address the supranational reach of the climate crisis, British authors used metamodernist means to map the historical ruination of remote islands onto speculative futures extrapolated from the climate reports of the IPCC – thereby conjuring the climatological transformation of Earth into an Earth-like planet and the propulsion of humans toward future obsolescence. Ultimately, this article attends to the ecocritical significance of Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004), Self’s The Book of Dave (2006) and Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2007) to suggest that these metamodernist climate fictions transpose the failures of submerged pasts onto near-futures drawn from present precarity to undermine the present as unique, the future as determined and the past as inaccessible and of little use to the present or future. AcknowledgmentsI would like to thank Dr. Christopher Douglas, Dr. Nicholas Bradley, and Dr Helga Thorson for their mentorship. I would like to express my gratitude to visual artist Terry Marner for introducing me to metamodernism and to acknowledge metamodernist scholar Dr. Alison Gibbons for her kind words of encouragement. I would also like to recognize the editorial team at Critique for their guidance. Finally, I would like to express my deep gratitude to Dr. Michael Lukas, Dr. Marla Buchanan, June Violet and Caspar Finnegan.Disclosure StatementNo financial interest, benefit, nor potential conflict is reported by the author.Notes1. Santayana, “Reason in Common Sense” 82.2. Self, Junk Mail 109.3. A term coined by reporter Dan Bloom in 2007 that gained more widespread currency in the decade that followed.4. This article refers to the Indigenous names given to each island (Hiort, Rēkohu and Rapa Nui) rather than to their colonial designations (St. Kilda, Chatham and Easter Island) in recognition of the Indigenous communities that populated these sites prior to colonial occupation.5. In Plato’s Symposium (ca. 385–70 B.C.), the term metaxy (μεταξύ) denotes an oscillating movement among, between, and beyond two poles (202d13-e1).6. DeLillo 33–40.7. See for example, Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), Hardt and Negri’s Empire (2001) and Ronald Wright’s A Short History of Progress (2004).8. Donne, “XVII Meditation” (1624).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ian H. Stewart Graduate Fellowship, and Hugh Campbell","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136013454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lacan, Shadow Feminism, and Paul Auster’s <i>City of Glass</i>","authors":"Marcus Richey","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2023.2264173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2023.2264173","url":null,"abstract":"This essay engages Paul Auster’s novel from 1985, City of Glass, with Lacan and feminism, in order to venture beyond the more business-as-usual formal aspects of postmodernism and propose that the ambiguous resistance of the text can be situated in a decidedly social and ideological context. The protagonist Daniel Quinn is presented as embarking upon a bewildering anti-detective odyssey that gives voice/language to a wish to confront, expose and pull down the traditional law-of-the-Father in order to clear the stage for what can or would come next. The Lucanian psychosexual rebirth of Quinn is followed through its stages (imaginary and symbolic), culminating in the blank white room of erasure at the end. Close attention is given to the enigmatic nature of the job Quinn accepts in the name of protecting the son from the father, seeing it as a repudiation of the fallacy of Peter Stillman Sr.’s wish to access the impossible realm of the real. The text’s unconscious, antisocial longing for the antidote to America’s deeply embedded patriarchal pathology is found in the mystical release of the lost Quinn into the very brickwork of the city, a baffling postmodern revolution in dream-mode, a shadow-feminism resistance through self-annihilation.","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":"2005 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135245727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When the Powerpolis Paused: Representations of Political Trauma of Indian Emergency in <i>Delhi Calm</i>","authors":"Nikhitha Mary Mathew, Smita Jha","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2023.2259792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2023.2259792","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIndian emergency is a period that is often counted among the dark days of post-Independent Indian history. Apart from the repeal of fundamental rights, this period also witnessed an autocratic rule by state-aided machinery that mostly affected the underprivileged sections. While censorship prevented narratives of these twenty-one months, literature took up the task of producing counter-narratives of common man’s experiences like slum demolition, mass arrests, curfew and vasectomy. Political trauma related to the period is two-fold; the first one being the trauma of abandonment and second one being the trauma of revelation. The current study proposes to analyze how Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s graphic novel sketches the political trauma of Emergency in Delhi. Referring to Delhi as the Powerpolis and Indira Gandhi as Mother Moon, Ghosh has employed a number of techniques to narrate the tale of silence. With flex boards, newspapers, and slogans lining up the pages, this tale in sepia presents the reader with a rather disturbing version of emergency through the eyes of a group of young activists. The study focuses on Ghosh’s character selection, narrative techniques, caricatures to understand the dynamics of representation and how Ghosh’s choice of graphic medium aptly conveys the trauma of state-aided oppression during times of emergency. Jenny Edkins’ idea of the trauma of betrayal will also be employed to analyze how the autocratic regime destabilized the Indian ideal of a democratic nation. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsNikhitha Mary MathewNikhitha Mary Mathew is a research scholar enrolled with the Humanities and Social Sciences department of IIT Roorkee, India. Her broad research area is Indian emergency literature. She aims at exploring the role of literature in speaking against dominant narratives and producing counter-histories. Theories from memory studies and trauma are the key pillars build up the critical outline of her research.Smita JhaSmita Jha is currently working as Professor of English, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. She has published more than 65 papers in refereed Journals of literature and a number of books like Manohar Malgonkar’s Narrative Style (Bloomsbury, 2020) and E.M. Forster as Biographer (Notion Press, 2020). She has received various prestigious fellowships like the Indo-Canadian Shastri Fellowship. Her research interest includes Indian Writing in English, Commonwealth Literature, Diasporic literature, Medical Humanities, Linguistics & ELT, Postcolonial writings, Contemporary Literary theories and Gender and Cultural Studies.","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135014004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Paul’s Imaginary Revenge in Teddy Wayne’s <i>The Great Man Theory</i>","authors":"Peter D. Mathews, Kyung Min No","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2023.2253145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2023.2253145","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135983773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Warped Bildung: Parody, Postmodern Gothic, and the Bildungsroman in Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory","authors":"Monavareh Jafari, M. Beyad, Zohreh Ramin","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2023.2255137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2023.2255137","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48307464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“A Question, in the End, of Vision”: Pessimism and the Paradox of Marriage in Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies","authors":"Lance Conley","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2023.2254687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2023.2254687","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44512197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Technocratic Fiction, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Counter-Insurgent Infrastructure”","authors":"Adam Carlson, Michael Truscello","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2023.2254221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2023.2254221","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45097594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Failure of Imagination and its Redemption: John Banville‘s The Book of Evidence","authors":"A. Uçar","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2023.2254219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2023.2254219","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41888632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Posthuman Intersections in BrexLit: Representing Migration in Contemporary British Fiction”","authors":"María Alonso Alonso","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2023.2255125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2023.2255125","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48955697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tessa Hadley and William Wordsworth: Literary Lineage and Patriarchal Legacy in The Past","authors":"Emily Beckwith","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2023.2252734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2023.2252734","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48820096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}