Noir Crime Novel, Science Fiction and Climate Futures
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https://doi.org/10.30827/tn.v7i2.29724Keywords:
Narratology, Climate fiction, Noir crime novel, Science Fiction, Climate changeAbstract
This essay explores the narrative challenges of climate fiction with respect to temporal, spatial, and social scales. Following a brief theoretical discussion, the essay focuses the genre of the noir crime novel in its combinations with science fiction as a particular narrative strategy for climate fiction. The analysis centers around two Spanish climate novels, El secreto del agua by Arturo Arnau Tarín (2007) and 2065 by José Miguel Gallardo (2017), in comparison with Paolo Bacigalupi's American novel The Water Knife (2015), with the goal of highlighting the benefits and difficulties of adapting an established literary genre to climate change as a narrative theme.
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