Towards Symbiocene: Simulation and Extrapolation of Environmental Inevitability in Ecofiction by Pooja Agarwal

“…The current paper seeks to investigate select texts of ecofiction: Megan Hunter’s The End We Start from (2017), Jim Laughter’s Polar City Red (2012), Louis Lowry’s The Giver (1993), and Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia (1975), towards analyzing how ecofiction can foster global eco-consciousness (Wallis 2013) by either instilling a sense of eco-guilt (Agoston et al. 2022) or offering ecological hope (Northcott 2020). …”
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