Global Crisis and Individual Adaptation in Michèle Laframboise’s “Monarque des glaces” [“Ice Monarch”] (2010)
The purpose of this study is to identify the relevance of Michèle Laframboise’s short story, “Monarque des glaces” [“Ice Monarch”], in a (sub)generic framework, as well as to demonstrate its applicability to plausible scenarios of environmental crisis, indeed, to “dynamics of collapse.” My research...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2020-03-01
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| Series: | Caliban: French Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/7550 |
| Summary: | The purpose of this study is to identify the relevance of Michèle Laframboise’s short story, “Monarque des glaces” [“Ice Monarch”], in a (sub)generic framework, as well as to demonstrate its applicability to plausible scenarios of environmental crisis, indeed, to “dynamics of collapse.” My research is informed by the work of Brent Ryan Bellamy, Roger Bozzetto, Gerry Canavan, Rebecca Evans, Andrew Milner and J. R. Burgman, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Darko Suvin. Among the objects of study to be analyzed are the stakes of the climate crisis, as represented in Laframboise’s narrative, and the characters’ means of survival and intervention, for better or for worse. The passages that I have chosen for consideration are on the physical and ideological conditions of the story world, on the modified body as an adaptation for the characters, as well as on their agency, and on the continuing social fallout of catastrophe, which aligns with anthropogenic causes of and anti-capitalist solutions to climate change. |
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| ISSN: | 2425-6250 2431-1766 |