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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Ghosh, Amitav (1956-....)
Titre(s) : The great derangement [Texte imprimé] : climate change and the unthinkable / Amitav Ghosh
Publication : Chicago : The University of Chicago press, 2017
Description matérielle : 196 pages ; 22 cm
Collection : The Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin family lectures
Lien à la collection : The Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin family lectures
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-196)
"Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations
may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global
warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines
our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale
and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh
asserts, makes them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining.
This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish
tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned
to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes
led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is
a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements. Ghosh
ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal
moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit fiction and
politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks
us to imagine other forms of human existence--a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues,
is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer's summons
to confront the most urgent task of our time."--Jacket
Sujet(s) : Changements climatiques
Réchauffement de la Terre
Catastrophes naturelles
Écocritique
Indice(s) Dewey :
809.933 6 (23e éd.) = Littérature - Histoire et critique - Thème des phénomènes physiques et naturels
; mathématiques
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226323039. - ISBN 022632303X. - ISBN 9780226323176 (erroné). - ISBN 022632317X.
- ISBN 9780226526812. - ISBN 022652681X. - ISBN 9780226323176
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455710252
Notice n° :
FRBNF45571025
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Stories ; History ; Politics.
