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dc.contributor.authorOramus, Dominika
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-28T07:49:19Z
dc.date.available2022-11-28T07:49:19Z
dc.date.issued2022-11-24
dc.identifier.issn2083-2931
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/44364
dc.description.abstractDespite being written half a century before the term “eco-anxiety” (Gifford and Gifford) was coined, J. G. Ballard’s disaster fictions can be read in the context of the social psychodynamics of climate change. My aim in this article is to demonstrate that in J. G. Ballard’s fiction, climate catastrophes and the devastation of nature cause the characters to realize that the Earth is not going to be able to sustain human life much longer, and their psychological reaction is either subdued anger or strange numbness. In order to do this, I analyze two short stories by Ballard: “Deep End” (1961) and “Low-Flying Aircraft” (1975) and show how their protagonists are affected by the landscape they inhabit: de-populated wastelands whose wildlife is extinct or mutated. I argue that it is their awareness that human civilization on earth is coming to its end that results in the state of mind akin to eco-anxiety. The characters are immersed in their own inner space and in these stories clocks mark not the passage from past to future but a countdown to the end.en
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegopl
dc.relation.ispartofseriesText Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture;12en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjecteco-anxietyen
dc.subjectJ. G. Ballarden
dc.subjectclimate fictionen
dc.subjectscience fictionen
dc.subjectinner spaceen
dc.titleProphesying the End of Human Time: Eco-Anxiety and Regress in J. G. Ballard’s Short Fictionen
dc.typeArticle
dc.page.number157-171
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationUniversity of Warsawen
dc.identifier.eissn2084-574X
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dc.contributor.authorEmaildominika.oramus@uw.edu.pl
dc.identifier.doi10.18778/2083-2931.12.10


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