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Nature as Metaphor.

Riddle, Amy .

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紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Nature as Metaphor./
作者:	Riddle, Amy .
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
面頁冊數:	134 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-04, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-04B.
標題:	African literature. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28000308
ISBN:	9798672185095

Nature as Metaphor.
Riddle, Amy .

Nature as Metaphor. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 134 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-04, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

In my dissertation entitled "Nature as Metaphor," I examine nature as a referent for social and environmental crises in a selection of literature from Africa and the Middle East-two areas where scientists project that up to a billion people will be displaced in 30 years due to the climate crisis. More than 99% of scientists now agree that it is time to panic about the warming planet, and are moving on to decipher the correct response to that panic. One response to this is a push for accelerated technologies, further militarization and geoengineering. Science fiction from the Global North tends to follow this path. Literature set in the Global South on the other hand, due to uneven technological development, tends to emphasize the social response over the technological response.That said, my research demonstrates that a surprising amount of contemporary literature from the Global South suggests that social and environmental crises are naturally and not socially generated. If crises are imagined as having a natural source--such as corrupt human nature--it is difficult to imagine a social solution--such as changes in the social and economic order that could reduce or eliminate carbon output. The range of texts discussed include works of apocalyptic literature in the science fictional genre, works that incorporate the supernatural, and works labeled "petrofiction," usually understood as literature with oil as part of the story.Social crises are often framed in the novel with reference to ideas about nature and what is natural, with nature and society presented on both sides of a metaphoric equation. Reference to nature can be used to justify or criticize the prevailing social order. The work may locate the source of a social problem in the depiction of a society behaving "unnaturally," or going against what is assumed to be the ordinary course of nature. Or society may be depicted as behaving in accordance with nature but facing an "unnatural" force. In contemporary works that foreground environmental concerns, nonhuman nature is sometimes emphasized to the point that ecological processes appear to absorb social processes, thereby muting the possibility of any kind of transformation that could result from social change. In this type of novel, nature appears to be working out its own contradictions, even exhibiting the "natural" progress of the "dark side" of human nature moving towards its own destruction, as programmed by nature.My dissertation aims to find a method that can be used to analyze nature as metaphor in the novel. Georg Lukacs' Theory of the Novel distinguishes between first nature-as pristine nature that is not socially generated, and second nature-as nature that is socially generated under capital. I argue in my dissertation that using this distinction is particularly useful in analyzing different presentations of the "natural" and "unnatural" in literature examining social and environmental crises, because it emphasizes the ways in which the narrative sees crises as either naturally or socially produced. While this may appear to be an unimportant distinction, examining the apparent sources of the crises can indicate whether the narrative forecloses or opens a path for social possibility.

ISBN: 9798672185095Subjects--Topical Terms:

1973478
African literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Critical Theory

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