Abstract
Adeline Johns-Putra is Professor of English Literature at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and Fel-low of the Royal Society of Arts. She is one of the first ecocritics to focus on climate change fiction (cli-fi) and has published widely in this field. This interview consists of two parts, addressing the narrative strategies of cli-fis and the genealogy of various interdisciplinary methodologies in cli-fi studies. Johns-Putra points out the importance of historicizing and contextualizing cli-fis and Anthropocene criticism in the 21st century. She emphasizes an inter-generational and cross-species perspective to incorporate both the human and the non-human, both the Global North and the Global South, in a "Critical Eudaemonistic Framework." Also, she suggests the necessity of putting Chinese environmental literature and Western texts in a comparative atlas. However, she insists that the hermeneutic interpretation of literary texts should be valued in any interdisciplinary or comparative cli-fi studies.
| Translated title of the contribution | Contextualizing Climate Change Fiction and Anthropocene Criti-cism in the 21st Century: An Interview with Adeline Johns-Putra |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-17 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Foreign Literature Studies |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 25 Jun 2022 |
