SARS COV11 AND OTHER CALAMITIES IN ADAM NEVILL’S LOST GIRL
SARS COV11 AND OTHER CALAMITIES IN ADAM NEVILL’S LOST GIRL
Author(s): Kubra BaysalSubject(s): Physical Geopgraphy, Health and medicine and law, Theory of Literature, British Literature
Published by: International University of Sarajevo
Keywords: coronavirus; pandemic; calamity; cli-fi; the Anthropocene; posthuman;
Summary/Abstract: Speculating about future based on the present, climate change fiction (cli-fi) proves its potential to predict the environmental and social repercussions of anthropogenic transformation(s) on Earth. As a cli-fi novel, Lost Girl (2015) envisions the collapse of the world through grim depictions of the nonhuman environment and restless societies and recounts the dangerous quest of a father to find his lost daughter amidst (un)natural disasters, pandemics, and chaos. In the realistic world of Lost Girl, new strains of deadly viruses take hold of the world. Prophesying the corona- virus pandemic and other calamities that came out to be true in 2020 such as the destructive wildfires in Australia or the heatwaves in Europe among others, Lost Girl has a realistic touch leaving a wake-up call effect on the reader to change their anthropocentric way of living through a posthuman perspective.
Journal: Epiphany. Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies
- Issue Year: 14/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 93-115
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English