A Fictional Risk Narrative and Its Potential for Social Resonance: Reception of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups

Sonja Fücker; Anna Auguscik; Anton Kirchhofer; Uwe Schimank

doi:10.5325/j.ctv1mvw8k2.14

A Fictional Risk Narrative and Its Potential for Social Resonance: Reception of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups

Sonja Fücker
, Anna Auguscik
, Anton Kirchhofer
, Uwe Schimank

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

Abstract

Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior is one of the most prominent examples in the “currently emerging genre of the climate change novel” (Mayer 2014, 24; see also Trexler and Johns-Putra 2011). Published in 2012, it offers a complex comment on contemporary US-American risk discourses about climate change. Science, as represented in the novel, figures as a detector of ecological risks. At the same time, scientists are shown to lack the capacity for effectively communicating this knowledge to the general public. By representing science and scientists in this way, the novel may itself be read as taking on the task of informing...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Under the Literary Microscope : Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel
Editors	Sina Farzin, Susan Gaines, Ros Haynes
Number of pages	31
Place of Publication	University Park
Publisher	Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date	2021
Pages	218-248
Article number	10
ISBN (Print)	978-0-271-08978-2
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-271-09011-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv1mvw8k2.14
Publication status	Published - 2021

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Fücker, S., Auguscik, A., Kirchhofer, A., & Schimank, U. (2021). A Fictional Risk Narrative and Its Potential for Social Resonance: Reception of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups. In S. Farzin, S. Gaines, & R. Haynes (Eds.), Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel (pp. 218-248). Article 10 (AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series; Vol. 7). Pennsylvania State University Press. https://doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv1mvw8k2.14

Fücker, Sonja ; Auguscik, Anna ; Kirchhofer, Anton et al. / A Fictional Risk Narrative and Its Potential for Social Resonance: Reception of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups. Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel . editor / Sina Farzin ; Susan Gaines ; Ros Haynes. University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021. pp. 218-248 (AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series).

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Fücker, S, Auguscik, A, Kirchhofer, A & Schimank, U 2021, A Fictional Risk Narrative and Its Potential for Social Resonance: Reception of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups. in S Farzin, S Gaines & R Haynes (eds), Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel ., 10, AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series, vol. 7, Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, pp. 218-248. https://doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv1mvw8k2.14

A Fictional Risk Narrative and Its Potential for Social Resonance: Reception of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups. / Fücker, Sonja; Auguscik, Anna; Kirchhofer, Anton et al.
Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel . ed. / Sina Farzin; Susan Gaines; Ros Haynes. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021. p. 218-248 10 (AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series; Vol. 7).

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Fücker S, Auguscik A, Kirchhofer A, Schimank U. A Fictional Risk Narrative and Its Potential for Social Resonance: Reception of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups. In Farzin S, Gaines S, Haynes R, editors, Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2021. p. 218-248. 10. (AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series). doi: 10.5325/j.ctv1mvw8k2.14

A Fictional Risk Narrative and Its Potential for Social Resonance: Reception of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups

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