Dans le cadre d'un cycle de conférences que le CEREP consacre aux Postcolonial Dialogues, un expoisé par le Pr Stef CRAPS de l'Université de Gand

Climate change, arguably the defining issue of our time, is usually treated as a strictly scientific, economic, or technological problem.

However, it also raises profound questions of meaning, value, and justice, as it challenges taken-for-granted ways of viewing and inhabiting the world. The early twenty-first century has witnessed the emergence of a wave of literary texts that adapt or reinvent conventional modes of representation in an attempt to capture and convey the nature and meaning of climate change and the urgency required to tackle it.

This lecture discusses the ways in which writers of what has come to be known as "cli-fi" address inequalities in the global distribution of responsibility for and vulnerability to climate change in their work. It will focus not only on texts that explicitly engage with questions of climate justice but also on texts that largely evade them.

À propos du conférencier

Stef CRAPS est professeur de littérature anglaise à l'Université de Gand, où il dirige le Cultural Memory Studies Initiative, un groupe de recherche qui réunit des chercheurs de toutes les sciences humaines qui travaillent sur les questions de mémoire et de traumatisme par la médiation culturelle.

Il est l'auteur de Postcolonial Witnessing : Trauma Out of Bounds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) et Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift : No Short-Cuts to Salvation (Sussex Academic Press, 2005), coauteur de Trauma (Routledge, 2020) et co-éditeur de Memory Unbound : Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies (Berghahn, 2017).

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