Climate Fiction: Literary Ripples in the Climate Crisis

Abstract

Since the Anthropocene, there has been a significant increase in human-caused climate crises such as severe weather events, natural disasters and climate change around the globe. Climate fiction, which conveys the unique environmental experience of the Anthropocene, comes into being in this context. Research and criticism of climate fiction also followed. The representative works of contemporary climate fiction and their key critical concepts not only outline a broad spectrum of cultural analysis, but also depict a lasting mode of world existence and a broad prospect of the Anthropocene, providing a new perspective for the construction of eco-cosmopolitanism community. This paper tries to give an overview of the background, development, criticism and future path of climate fiction in order to alert people to the issue of climate change, construct a new research framework of world literature and offer a new theoretical perspective for the writing and dissemination of world literature history.