TY - JOUR TT - Climate Change: An Apocalypse for Urban Space? An Ecocritical Reading of “Venice Drowned” and “The Tamarisk Hunter” AU - Akyol, Özlem PY - 2020 DA - February DO - 10.22559/folklor.1137 JF - Folklor/Edebiyat JO - folk/ed PB - Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 1300-7491 SP - 115 EP - 126 VL - 26 IS - 101 LA - en KW - cli-fi KW - global warming N2 - As encapsulated by eco-conscious author Margaret Atwood, climate change hasan unprecedented effect on human life. Throughout history human beings haveadapted to numerous climatic changes by complying with the available sources offood, housing, clothing, water or warmth. Today, however, climate change createsmore devastating and instant consequences that populations and the ecosystemcannot cope with. The situation seems to have become too compelling to ignoreso many authors feel an urge to warn people by transforming graphs and scientificdata into emotion and experience in their narratives. At this point, “climate fiction”commonly known as “cli-fi” emerges as a new category engaging global andlocal effects of the global warming with literature. Despite the fact that cli-fi wasnot officially coined until the late 2000’s, many authors have been writing aboutclimate change for years now. In this sense, “Venice Drowned” (1981) and “TheTamarisk Hunter” which was published 25 years later are the best examples toillustrate how deep-rooted and long-standing environmental issue climate is. Kim Stanley Robinson and Paolo Bacigalupi have produced a great deal ofworks relating to not only the physical destruction of climate change to the Earthbut also its long-term effects on our social and economic structures. Accordingly,the stories both set in urban space skillfully exemplify the social, political andeconomic effects of climate change. So far, a great amount of cli-fi texts have beenproduced and literary critics have also responded to this trend with an increasedquantity of analyses in the context of eco-criticism. In this paper “Venice Drowned”by Kim Stanley Robinson and “The Tamarisk Hunter” by Paolo Bacigalupi will bestudied through the theories of ecocriticism in order to demonstrate how cli-fi textsfunction in providing the reader with an objective perception by elucidating theexplicit and belated challenges posed by the problem of climate change. CR - Bacigalupi, P. (2008). The tamarisk hunter (ed.), Pump six and other stories. USA: Night Shade. pp. 123-237. CR - Buell, F. (2003). From apocalypse to way of life: Environmental crisis in the American century. New York: Routledge. CR - Garrard, G. (2004). Ecocriticism. London: Routledge. CR - Hamilton, S. (2003). Traces of the future: Biotechnology, science fiction, and the media (ed.). Science Fictions Studies, S. 30(2), pp. 267–282. CR - Heise, U. (2010). 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