Take 15 minutes in small groups and designate a “lifeline,” if you have one, to present the group’s findings:
- What are some ongoing debates about definitions of cli-fi or Anthropocene fiction as a genre, and how does Jones position Ghosh’s novel within those debates? Note how the author cites two prior arguments regarding “the novels of the Anthropocene” and rejects both, creating space for their own, new approach.
- How does Jones untie the complex knot the novel ties around the fate of the refugees in Morichjhapi? Do you buy this reading?
- What are the “two discourses” that Jones points out that characterize the way climate refugees tend to be viewed and interpreted? What alternatives does he present to these problematic discourses?
- How does Jones read Ghosh’s novel within a longer literary history of representations of utopia? How is The Hungry Tide both like and unlike classic utopias, from Thomas More’s to the present?
- Where should we look for Anthropocene fiction? What are the arguments for the preeminence of science fiction in this field, and how does Jones revise this consensus? How does Jones’s argument relate to Ghosh’s from earlier in the term?
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