Anthropocene,Climate Fiction and Critical Dystopia
The positive significance of the Anthropocene concept exists in clarifying that climate change has become an imminent reality.As a literary response to the events of climate change in the An-thropocene era,climate fiction is gradually growing into an independent genre.Dystopia is a common mode for writers to create climate fiction.Many dystopian novels describing climate change have validated Tom Moylan's understanding of the "critical dystopia"and constructed an important ideal typological framework for contemporary climate fiction.Paolo Bacigalupi's climate novels embody the typical charac-teristics of"critical dystopia".By constructing a dystopian future world,the"critical dystopia"shows how the climate crisis changes human production and lifestyle,exacerbating the manipulation of capital and power over the lower class,and giving rise to more serious ecological,social and economic problems.At the same time,the"critical dystopia"adopts an open narrative strategy,which stimulates pluralistic oppo-sition and leads readers to think about the possibility of utopia in a changed world.
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