RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Climate fiction and the ethics  of existentialism: an econarratological analysis of lyra Koli's "Allting Växer"
A1 Flinker, Jens Kramshøj
K1 Climate fiction
K1 Econarratology
K1 Existentialism
K1 Ecocriticism
K1 Ficción climática
K1 Econarratología
K1 Existencialismo
K1 Ecocrítica
K1 Allting Växer
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB The purpose of this article is twofold: Existentialism as a philosophical discipline and ethical reference point seems to be a rare guest in ecocriticism. Based on an analysis of Lyra Koli's climate fiction "Allting Växer" (2018) this article argues that existentialism has something to offer to the ecocritical field. I make use of an econarratological approach, drawing on James Phelan's narrative ethics. Thus, I emphasize the article's second purpose, as narrative ethics is about reconstructing narratives own ethical standards rather than the reader bringing a prefabricated ethical system to the narrative. This reading practice can help to question the idea that some ethical and philosophical standards are better than others within ecocriticism—by encouraging scholars in ecocriticism to relate to what existentialism has to do with climate change in this specific case. In continuation of my analysis, I argue that "Allting Växer" is pointing at a positive side of existentialist concepts such as anxiety or anguish, that is, that there is a reflecting and changing potential in these moods or experiences. This existentialist framework contrasts with the interpretation of “Anthropocene disorder” (Timothy Clark) as the only outcome when confronting the complexity of the Anthropocene.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
SN 2171-9594
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/47907
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/47907
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 01-may-2024