Abstract
This paper examines representations of societal concern in the futuristic ecological disaster fictions of three British authors: Julie Bertagna (Exodus; Zenith), Jan Mark (Riding Tycho; Voyager) and Marcus Sedgwick (Floodland). The depicted refugee journeys in these futuristic worlds speak into a growing global disquiet that surrounds current historic events. Environmental crises that ground the emergent world orders of depicted future societies set the scene in each coming of age frame: each survival quest embeds social and cultural issues recognisable to contemporary audiences in futuristic representations of changed world orders, limited resources, and isolated communities.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 34-50 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Barnboken - tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Bibliographical note
Copyright the Publisher. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.Keywords
- Bertagna
- Mark
- Sedgwick
- ecocriticism
- refugees
- postdisaster fiction
- displacement
- transformative utopianism