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This project explores how contemporary fiction represents climate disasters, coining the term 'disaster distortion' to describe its impact on public perception. It analyzes narratives from Japan, Australia, and Mexico to assess their effectiveness in conveying the climate crisis and fostering agency.
I explore how the representation of disasters in contemporary fiction warps our understanding of the threat posed by the climate emergency.
To do so, I coin the term disaster distortion.
Disaster distortion refers to how catastrophes monopolize the imagination when representing the consequences of climate alterations in ways that restrain or omit other forms of violence associated with human involvement and which are systemic, stretch over longer periods of time, and affect the most disenfranchi…
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