At the centre of our collective inability to apprehend the climate crisis is our failure to imagine ourselves as anything other than the centre of everything. This article examines Jenny Offill’s novel “Weather” arguing that it stages the contemporary Western subject’s centring on its own trivialities as necessary to survival on an individual scale, yet also as threat to the survival of the planet.
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Distancing Affect in Fleabag
Denise Wong explores Waller-Bridge’s use of second-person narrative and affect in Fleabag
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