Gun Island and Blaze Island: Improbability, Risk, and Eco-Cosmopolitanism in Two Recent Climate-Change Novels

John Clement Ball

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Vol. 48 No. 1 (2023): Special Issue: The Ruptured Commons

Gun Island and Blaze Island: Improbability, Risk, and Eco-Cosmopolitanism in Two Recent Climate-Change Novels

John Clement Ball^▸^▾

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Submitted: May 15, 2024
Published: 2024-05-21

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How to Cite

Ball, J. C. (2024). Gun Island and Blaze Island: Improbability, Risk, and Eco-Cosmopolitanism in Two Recent Climate-Change Novels. Studies in Canadian Literature, 48(1), 62–86. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/34167

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[1] Appiah, Kwame Anthony. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. W.W. Norton, 2006.

[2] Arvay, Emily. “In Care of Thee.” Review of Blaze Island, by Catherine Bush. Canadian Literature, vol. 250, 2022, canlit.ca/article/in-care-of-thee/.

[3] Battaglia, Ian J. Review of Gun Island, by Amitav Ghosh. The Kenyon Review, 17 Apr. 2020, kenyonreview.org/reviews/gun-island-by-amitav-ghosh-738439/.

[4] Beck, Ulrich. The Cosmopolitan Vision. Translated by Ciaran Cronin, Polity, 2006.

[5] —. “World Risk Society as Cosmopolitan Society? Ecological Questions in a Framework of Manufactured Uncertainties.” World Risk Society, by Ulrich Beck, Polity, 1999, pp. 19-47.

[6] Bould, Mark. The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture. Verso, 2021. ProQuest.

[7] Bush, Catherine. Blaze Island. Goose Lane, 2020.

[8] —. “Writing the Real: Representing the Climate Crisis in Fiction.” Canadian Notes and Queries, vol. 106, Winter 2020, pp. 14-18.

[9] Caracciolo, Marco. Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty. Bloomsbury, 2022, library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58874.

[10] Clark, Alex. Review of Gun Island, by Amitav Ghosh. The Guardian, 5 June 2019, www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/05/gun-island-amitav-ghosh-review.

[11] Clark, Timothy. The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment. Cambridge UP, 2011.

[12] —. The Value of Ecocriticism. Cambridge UP, 2019.

[13] Fine, Robert. Cosmopolitanism. Routledge, 2007.

[14] Finn, Melanie. “Is Global Warming the 21st Century’s Black Death?” Review of Gun Island, by Amitav Ghosh. New York Times, 10 Sept. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/books/review/gun-island-amitav-ghosh.html.

[15] Garrard, Greg. “Conciliation and Consilience: Climate Change in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour.” Zapf, pp. 295-312.

[16] Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. U of Chicago P, 2016.

[17] —. Gun Island. Hamish Hamilton, 2019.

[18] —. The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. Hamish Hamilton, 2021.

[19] Heise, Ursula K. “Climate Stories.” Review of The Great Derangement, by Amitav Ghosh. b2o/boundary2, 19 Feb. 2018, www.boundary2.org/2018/02/ursula-k-heise-climatestories-review-of-amitav-ghoshs-the-great-derangement/.

[20] —. Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. Oxford UP, 2008.

[21] Hulme, Mike. Why We Disagree about Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity. Cambridge UP, 2009.

[22] Johansen, Emily. Beyond Safety: Risk, Cosmopolitanism, and Neoliberal Contemporary Life. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

[23] Johns-Putra, Adeline. Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel. Cambridge UP, 2019.

[24] Kluwick, Ursula. “The Global Deluge: Floods, Diluvian Imagery, and Aquatic Language in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Gun Island.” Green Letters, vol. 24, no. 1, 2020, pp. 64-78, doi:10.1080/14688417.2020.1752516.

[25] Kolbert, Elizabeth. Field Notes from a Catastrophe. Bloomsbury, 2006.

[26] Kormann, Carolyn. “Scenes from a Melting Planet: On the Climate-Change Novel.” The New Yorker, 3 July 2013, www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/scenes-from-a-melting-planet-on-the-climate-change-novel.

[27] LeMenager, Stephanie. “Climate Change and the Struggle for Genre.” Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times, edited by Tobias Menely and Jesse Oak Taylor, Penn State UP, 2017, pp. 220-38.

[28] Lupton, Deborah. Risk. 2nd ed., Routledge, 2013.

[29] Mayer, Sylvia. “World Risk Society and Ecoglobalism: Risk, Literature, and the Anthropocene.” Zapf, pp. 494-509.

[30] Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard UP, 2011.

[31] Portman, Jamie. “Blaze Island Is a Sizzling Ecological Thriller Set in Newfoundland.” Postmedia News, 2 Oct. 2020, o.canada.com/entertainment/books/blaze-island-a-sizzling-ecological-thriller-set-in-newfoundland.

[32] Puchner, Martin. Literature for a Changing Planet. Princeton UP, 2022.

[33] Shakespeare, William. The Tempest, edited by David Lindley, Cambridge UP, 2002.

[34] Slovic, Scott. “Science, Eloquence, and the Asymmetry of Trust: What’s at Stake in Climate Change Fiction.” Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data, edited by Scott Slovic and Paul Slovic, U of Oregon P, 2015, pp. 115-35. EBSCO

[35] eBook Collection.

[36] Song, Min Hyoung. Climate Lyricism. Duke UP, 2022.

[37] Trexler, Adam. Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change. E-book, U of Virginia P, 2015.

[38] van Hooft, Stan. Cosmopolitanism: A Philosophy for Global Ethics. McGill-Queen’s UP, 2009.

[39] Zapf, Hubert, editor. Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology. DeGruyter, 2016. EBSCO eBook Collection.