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"Unruly Microcosms in Contemporary Eco-Fiction"

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This article theorizes the disruptive epistemic work performed by microcosms in recent eco-fiction. Contemporary fiction often explores large-scale ecological disruption through smaller organisms and environments, enabling readers to perceive the Earth through analogy, allegory and metaphor. Within and against this scale-free reading, I argue that the microcosm has become a fracturing trope that troubles relations between scales. Drawing on fiction by T. C. Boyle, A. S. Byatt, Amitav Ghosh, Ali Smith, and Karen Tei Yamashita, I read the microcosm as a critical tool of Anthropocene awareness, because it foregrounds and questions scalar collapse–the epistemic projection of one scale onto another.
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hal-04522814 , version 1 (27-03-2024)

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Liliane Campos. "Unruly Microcosms in Contemporary Eco-Fiction". SubStance, 2023, 52 (3), pp.45-63. ⟨10.1353/sub.2023.a913890⟩. ⟨hal-04522814⟩
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