Colonial Crises of Imagination, Climate Fictions, and English Literary Education

Autor/in	Truman, Sarah E.
Titel	Colonial Crises of Imagination, Climate Fictions, and English Literary Education
Quelle	In: Research in Education, 117 (2023) 1, S.26-41 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Truman, Sarah E.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0034-5237
DOI	10.1177/00345237231183343
Schlagwörter	Colonialism; Literature Appreciation; English Literature; Climate; Fiction; Imagination; Racism; Humanism; Futures (of Society); Social Systems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kolonialismus; Literarische Wertung; Englische literatur; Klima; Fiktion; Rassismus; Humanismus; Future; Society; Zukunft; Social system; Soziales System
Abstract	This paper argues that the contemporary climate crises we see around our planet correlate with a colonial crisis of (literary) imagination. The author engages with Caribbean literary scholar Sylvia Wynter and other anti-colonial scholars to trace how the colonial literary imagination is rooted in the euro-western humanism and racial capitalism that governs the west, the stories and literary forms that frame it, and whose logics continue to be rehearsed across the disciplines--particularly in English literatures taught in school. The paper then argues that to understand the histories of this crisis of imagination and its link to climate crises, and perhaps paradoxically access literature's speculative potential to imagine different climate futures, literary educators and scholars need to prioritize literatures and literary critiques that are embedded in a different relationship to the imagination and ecology. (As Provided).
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