Climate Fiction and the Limits of Representation: Scale, Agency and Futurity
Caleb Ferrari, Lenka FilipovaABSTRACT
This special issue examines the limits of representation in climate fiction. Rather than treating such limits as mere narrative failures to be overcome, the essays understand them in two related ways. They concern both the difficulties of rendering climate change apprehensible and intelligible and the limits of representation as the principal framework through which climate fiction is interpreted and assessed. Across literary genres and media, the essays explore the different forms these limits take in particular narratives. This editorial groups the contributions into three overlapping clusters. The first concerns the limits of direct representation, the second focuses on futurity and political possibility and the third addresses colonial histories and more‐than‐human agency.