Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change: Text Models for a Transcultural Ecology asks two questions: How do we read (in) the Anthropocene? And what can reading teach us? To answer these questions, the book develops a concept of transcultural ecology that understands fiction and interpretation as text models that help address the various and incommensurable scales inherent to climate change. Focussing on text composition, reception, storyworlds, and narrative framing in world literature and elsewhere, each chapter elaborates on central educational objectives through the close reading of texts by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole and J.M. Coetzee as well as films, picture books and new digital media and their aesthetic affordances. At the end of each chapter, these objectives are summarised in sections on the 'general implications for studying and teaching' (GIST) and together offer a new concept of transcultural competence in conversation with current debates in literaturepedagogy and educational philosophy.

About the Author

Roman Bartosch is Associate Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures and the Teaching of English at the University of Cologne, Germany, and coeditor of Beyond the Human-Animal Divide (Palgrave 2018).

Book Information
ISBN 9783030332990
Author Roman Bartosch
Format Hardback
Page Count 178
Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG