Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis connects insights from
the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate
change and environmental degradation, and features considerations of new
interventions by literature in relation to these pressing questions and
debates. This volume informs academic debates in terms of how nonhuman
animals figure in our cultural imagination of topics such as climate
change, extinction, animal otherness, the posthuman, and environmental
crises. Using a diverse set of methodologies, each chapter presents
relevant cases which discuss the various aspects of these interstices.
This volume is an intersection between literary animal studies and
climate fiction intended as an interdisciplinary intervention that
speaks to the global climate debate and is thus relevant across the
environmental humanities.