Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene master narrative by Chiara Xausa

Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene Master Narrative (Peter Lang, 2025; Ralahine Utopian Studies series) offers one of the first sustained analyses of climate fiction through an intersectional ecocritical framework. What happens when the dominant narrative of the Anthropocene is challenged from a feminist and decolonial perspective? How can speculative fiction reimagine environmental futures beyond the one-dimensional frameworks that often shape representations of the climate crisis?

This book explores the interplay between feminist environmental humanities and feminist speculative fiction, intervening in debates around the Anthropocene by foregrounding the need to decolonise the imagination. Informed by intersectionality and decolonial feminism, it examines dystopian and post-apocalyptic narratives that address the patriarchal domination of nature in its intersections with other forms of injustice. Through the analysis of a range of Anglophone authors—including Alexis Wright, Nnedi Okorafor, N. K. Jemisin, Cherie Dimaline, Vandana Singh, and Jesmyn Ward—the study highlights how contemporary fiction engages the climate crisis as a site where questions of power, inequality, and environmental justice converge.

ISBN: 9781803740959

Publisher: Peter Lang. Series: Ralahine Utopian Studies, Volume 37. ISBN (PDF): 9781803740959. ISBN (ePUB): 9781803740966. ISBN (Softcover): 9781803740942. DOI: 10.3726/b20574

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Anthropocene, Chiara Xausa, clifi, EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS, environmental justice, intersectionality

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