The Great Derangement
Climate Change and the Unthinkable
by Amitav Ghosh · first published 2016
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"Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, makes them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms a
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh (2016) Ghosh changed my perspective on climate change. He argues that the modern novel struggles as an art form to describe and grapple with the concept…
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