Here’s the prompt for the first blog post, due Thursday:

All three of the authors we’ve read so far (Nixon, Lemenager, and Ghosh, our reading for Thursday) emphasize “representational” problems represented by climate change. In one way or another, all wrestle with the way the “slow violence” (Nixon) of climate change is hard to visualize or conceptualize in ways that make it seem possible to act effectively. Using one or more of these authors’ arguments, discuss some ways in which novels have a special role to play in helping us think more richly, more clearly, and more deeply about climate change.

I’ve posted more about the mechanics and the rhetoric of how to blog here: please take a look as you prepare this assignment.

Due before class on Thursday.