A Posthumanist Analysis of the Representations of Climate Anxiety in James Graham Ballard’s Post-apocalyptic Climate Fiction Tetralogy
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2023
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Kapadokya Üniversitesi, Lisansüstü Eğitim, Öğretim ve Araştırma Enstitüsü
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Global climate change is the greatest existential threat that the Anthropocene era has brought to humanity, and environmental disasters have caused great concerns about the future of our planet. This serious threat has had very important reflections in the field of literature as well as the scientific fields. Many authors have written works dealing with environmental problems in this context. As a result, climate fiction is born as a new genre in fiction. In addition, a new understanding has emerged for people to re-examine their relationship with nature today. Contrary to the traditional humanist understanding, posthumanism questions and discusses the superiority of the human being over nature and human agency. On the other hand, the negative consequences of environmental disasters caused by climate change have brought along some psychological problems. In this context, the concept of solastalgia (climate anxiety) was put forward by Glenn Albrecht. This study includes a comprehensive analysis of the representations of climate anxiety in James Graham Ballard’s climate fiction tetralogy, published in the early 1960s, in terms of posthumanism. Four selected novels of J.G. Ballard, The Wind from Nowhere (1961), The Drowned World (1962), The Burning World (1964) and The Crystal World (1966) are analysed in this context. These four novels by the famous British author are considered to be among the main examples of climate fiction. In the four novels analysed in this thesis, it is emphasised that the bonds between humans and nature are vitally important and that deterioration of the natural balance by humans causes great problems and disasters both physically and spiritually. From the posthumanist stance, it is necessary for modern humans to revise their relationship with nature. In addition, Ballard vividly describes how vulnerable humans are and how human civilisation could be destroyed in the event of catastrophes.
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Science fiction, climate fiction, solastalgia, Anthropocene, posthumanism, James Graham Ballard
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DOĞAN, Bekir Ercan. A Posthumanist Analysis of the Representations of Climate Anxiety in James Graham Ballard’s Post-apocalyptic Climate Fiction Tetralogy, Master’s Thesis, Nevşehir, 2023.
