Vol. 56, No. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2021)
Contents Special Double Issue: California, Cli-Fi, and Climate Crisis
Guest edited by Daniel D. Clausen
Essays Guest Editor’s Introduction: What Happens in California Cli-Fi
Daniel D. Clausen
Pre-apocalypse Now:
Gold Fame Citrus as Weird Western Cli-Fi
Jennifer K. Ladino
Old Chestnuts: Seeding Alternative Communities and Alternative Futures in/with
The Overstory Ryan Hediger
Uncenter Yourselves: Revisiting Robinson Jeffers’s Inhumanism in the Age of
The Overstory Cory Willard
“A Land of Missing Things”: Extraction, Belonging, and Chinese Immigrant Labor in C Pam Zhang’s
How Much of These Hills Is Gold Ashley E. Reis
Cli-Fi Georgic and Grassroots Mutual Aid in Octavia Butler’s
Parable of the Sower Daniel D. Clausen
“Trees are better than stone”: Vital Commemoration in Octavia Butler’s
Parable Novels
Matt Burkhart
California Dreaming: Reading the Ski Film as Cli-Fi
Kevin Maier
Book Reviews Antonia Castañeda and Clara Lomas,
Writing/Righting History: Twenty-Five Years of Hispanic Literary Heritage Erin Murrah-Mandril
Jim Hoy,
My Flint Hills: Observations and Reminiscences from America’s Last Tallgrass Prairie Timothy A. Schuler
Arnold Krupat,
Changed Forever: American Boarding-School Literature, Volume 2
Lydia Presley
Julie Sze,
Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger
Nick Earhart
Édouard Glissant, Treatise on the Whole-World, translated by Celia Britton; Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity, translated by Celia Britton; and The Baton Rouge Interviews (with Alexandre Leupin), translated by Kate M. Cooper
Neil Campbell
Gretchen Cassel Eick,
They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastman’s Story Angela Calcaterra
Ellen Waterston,
Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America along the Oregon Desert Trail Dylan Couch
Naima Coster,
What’s Mine and Yours Danni Garcia Brar
Kendra Atleework,
Miracle Country: A Memoir Ella Shively
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