Crise climática e reconfiguração do romance contemporâneo em The Ministry for the Future, de Kim Stanley Robinson

Anderson Soares Gomes

doi:10.12957/matraga.2022.61116

Climate crisis and the reconfiguration of the contemporary novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future

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Anderson Soares Gomes Universidade FEderal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8727-4554

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2022.61116

Keywords:

novel, climate crisis, nature, culture, Kim Stanley Robinson

Abstract

This work aims to investigate the ways in which Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel The Ministry for the Future (2020) expands the possibilities of contemporary fiction in the face of the climate crisis. The text will be organized from two focus points: the legitimacy of the genre “literary fiction” to narrate the Anthropocene; and the questioning of the distinction between the concepts of nature and culture amidst the environmental catastrophe. Thus, this article intends to show that The Ministry for the Future presents reconfiguration strategies of the contemporary novel considering the context of climate change.

Author Biography

Anderson Soares Gomes, Universidade FEderal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ)

É professor associado da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), onde leciona língua inglesa e literaturas de língua inglesa. É doutor em Estudos de Literatura pela PUC-Rio e mestre em Letras pela UERJ. Foi pesquisador visitante na University of British Columbia (UBC) onde desenvolveu pesquisa sobre multiculturalismo e literatura canadense, e também na Seattle University, onde desenvolveu trabalho sobre as relações entre literatura estadunidense contemporânea e crise climática.

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2022-03-17

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Gomes, A. S. (2022). Climate crisis and the reconfiguration of the contemporary novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 29(55), 130–142. https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2022.61116

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Vol. 29 No. 55 (2022): Miscelaneous

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