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The Great Derangement

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Great Derangement

By Amitav Ghosh

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About the book

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of th...Show more

Literary studies: general

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ISBN

9780226526812

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2017

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