ENG 295-02 - Special Topic: Anthropocene Fictions: How Novels Depict Climate Change

2 credits (Fall)

Beginning with Amitav Ghosh’s declaration in his 2016 book The Great Derangement that fiction has not dealt with climate change, we will study climate change novels by Ghosh and other writers like Ruth Ozeki, Octavia Butler, and Jeanette Winterson.

Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121, with grade, S, C, or better; or second-year standing with instructor permission.
Note: Dates: October 23 to December 4. Half-semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: Kapila