Anthropocene Realism : Fiction in the Age of Climate Change (Paperback)

1.Introduction 2.'Weather as Everything': Social Realism in Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior 3.Seeking 'The Perfect Story': Metajournalistic Realism in Helon Habila's Oil on Water 4.Apocalypse Now? Visceral Realism in Liz Jensen's The Rapture 5.Tracing Genealogies: Circumstantial Realism in Annie Proulx's Barkskins 6.'Trees Are Social Creatures': Animist Realism in Richard Powers' The Overstory 7.It's Not Funny: Comic Realism in Ian McEwan's Solar 8.Beyond the Anthropocene: Testimonial Realism in Indra Sinha's Animal's People 9.Nordic Noir: Urban Realism in Antti Tuomainen's The Healer 10.'Everything Change': Speculative Realism in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy 11.'Outside the Range of the Probable'? Picaresque Realism in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island 12.Conclusion Bibliography