Date of Award
2019
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
MacDonald, Ian P.
Abstract
Non-Anglophone voices in literature can lead to a better understanding of the intricate relationships shown by Ashley Dawson tying capitalism, slow violence, and uneven development to climate change. There is skepticism that science fiction (sf) in particular can properly present climate issues in the anthropocentric era that we live in today, but scholars such as Shelley Streeby argue against such perceptions. Science fiction writers that use magical realism, such as Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Nalo Hopkinson, as ecological sf have already accomplished the task of creating speculative works that fit in perfectly under the umbrella of “serious fictions.” These writers work from a non-Anglophone perspective or from a minority group within a Western society, allowing for different modes of thinking to play a part in these bigger discourses. Writers, educators, and other scholars need to reestablish humanity’s kinship with nature.
Extent
62 p.
Recommended Citation
Abreu, Toribio Mailyn, "Out with the “I” and In with the “Kin”: Environmental Activism Through Speculative Fiction" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 2245.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/2245
Identifier
FA00013178
Comments
Includes bibliography.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019.|Florida Atlantic University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Includes bibliography.