Imagologia przestrzenna w ekofantastyce. Uwagi na marginesie prozy Paola Bacigalupiego
Space Imagery in Ecofiction: Remarks on the Prose of Paolo Bacigalupi

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the connections between the questions of ecology and the formal presentations of landscape and topography in the dystopian prose of Paolo Bacigalupi. He models his literary world – the Earth in no so distant future – along the following framework. Today’s toponomastics refers to the places which have been transformed by eco-climatic disasters and devastated by modern economy on many platforms: geographical, political and biological. The shift of the widely recognizable world maps (geographical, physical, economic) underlies Bacigalupi’s literary constructs. On the one hand, it corresponds with the authorial analyses of socio-political-economic and civilization-ethical transformations around which his stories revolve. On the other, this change evokes in the reader the sense of alienation and, consequently, threat.

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