Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change

Zimmerman presents an interdisciplinary study of climate change and how the dominant discourses associated with it contribute to a form of cultural denial. It explores how the climate change discourse can be illuminated by framing it in terms of the trope of trauma, and considers how literary responses to the climate crisis participate in this.

Lee Zimmerman is Professor of English at Hofstra University, USA, and editor of the journal Twentieth-Century Literature.

Introduction;  Chapter 1: Pavel's Lament: Climate and Trauma;  Chapter 2: What We Don't Talk about when We Talk about Global Warming;  Chapter 3: Butcheries;  Chapter 4: Climate Change and Fiction I: Disarticulations and The Great Derangement;  Chapter 5: Climate Change and Fiction II: On Not Eating the Baby;  Coda: The Burning Child