The Future is Female (and Anticapitalist): Cli-Fi Narratives written by Women
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https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2022v30n275807Keywords:
Cli-fi, Ecofeminism, Anthropocene, Anticapitalism, FeminismAbstract
This paper aims to analyze the cli-fi written by women in recent years, establishing a dialogue between literature, feminism and environmental crisis. The study will focus on how cli-fi criticizes the environmental destruction of our time as well as its relation to capitalism and its contribution to the literary tradition of which it is a part of. Thus, through a brief discussion about narratives that search a greater connection with nature, this essay aims to discuss our current environmental crisis as well
as the importance of the cli-fi in it and its relevance to the historical moment we are living. To do so, I attempt to sketch working definitions for cli-fi narratives while connecting them with theories about feminism, anticapitalism, ecofeminism and the Anthropocene.
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