HP223 Climate Fictions in Latin America
| Module Code: HP223 |
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| Module Name: Climate Fictions in the Hispanic World |
| Module Coordinator: Professor Fabienne Viala |
| Term 2 |
| Module Credits: 15 |
Module Description
This module will explore “cli-fi” literature in Spanish, as a genre able to raise awareness of human-induced anthropocene and its consequences on ecosystems. Students will investigate how literary techniques and strategies can trigger empathetic and ethical responses, and challenge attitudes of denial and despair towards the impact of global warming and our implication with its causes and consequences. Short stories from Spanish and Latin American writers will be the primary material to explore the ability of speculative fiction to imagine the future and rethink the existential paradigms that lay behind the thermo-industrial civilisation we currently inhabit.
Assessment
80% essay (2,750 words)
20% presentation (10 min video - formats to be discussed in class)
Primary Reading
In this module we will read a selection of short stories in Spanish taken from the following collections:
- Estío, Once Relatos de ficción climática, Episkaia, Madrid, 2018
- El Futuro es Bosque: Antología de Ficción Climática, ed. Giny Valris, apachelibros, Pluma Futura, 2018
- Erik Mota, Habana Underguater, La Habana: Atom Press, 2010
- Edmundo Paz Soldán, El comienzo del paraíso, Páginas de Espuma, Madrid, 2025
