Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change: Literature, Psychoanalysis and Denial

Its early chapters consider that process in representations of climate change across a range of disciplines and throughout the public sphere, including Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Barack Obama's speeches and climate plans, and the 2015 Paris Agreement. Later chapters focus on how literary representations especially, for the most part, participate in such disarticulations, and on how, in grappling with the representational difficulties at the climate crisis's heart, some works of fiction-among them Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker-work against that normalized rhetorical violence. The book closes with a meditation centered on the dream of the burning child Freud sketches in The Interpretation of Dreams.Highlighting the existential stakes of the ways we think and write about the climate, Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change aims to offer an unfamiliar place from which to engage the astonishing quiescence of our ecocidal present. .

• | Author: Lee Zimmerman
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: April 07, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 144 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0367355566
• | ISBN-13: 9780367355562