Amitav Ghosh’s essential, terrifyingly present, book connects the dots between climate crisis and literature. It moves in scale from the systemic to the narrative, in equal parts. One of its core claims is for the necessity of collective ways of thinking that can better respond to contemporary ecological challenges—something that much North American and European literature of the 20th century has neglected. As applicable to literature as to visual art, Ghosh’s book stands lays out an argument for collaborative, multivocal artistic forms.
Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.