AN ANTHROPOCENE DYSTOPIA: HELEN SIMPSON’xxS DIARY OF AN INTERESTING YEAR
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Öğr. Gör. Niğmet METİNOĞLU Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale (MLA dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale) | ||
| Dergi Adı | The Criterion: An International Journal in English | ||
| Dergi ISSN | 0976-8165 | ||
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | MLA International Directory | ||
| Makale Dili | İngilizce | Basım Tarihi | 12-2020 |
| Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa | 11 / 6 / 222–238 | DOI | – |
| Makale Linki | https://www.the-criterion.com/V11/n6/BT09.pdf | ||
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| Özet |
| “Diary of an Interesting Year” is a cautionary climate fiction short story by Helen Simpson set in England in the near future depicting the condition of the Earth and societies after the muchdreaded results of global warming. The story is written in epistolary form as diary entries which heightens the sense of reality and makes it easy to associate with the unnamed character who writes the diary. The readers acquire the information regarding the collapse of social institutions including social security and health care management after “the Big Melt” through the character’s subjective point of view. The narrator who is hinted to be a woman experiences every kind of challenges from the simplest to much more complicated. Humans become the predators of their own species invading homes, imposing every kind of discomfort and driving each other out while news of cannibalism is conveyed through radio broadcast. The aim of this paper is to scrutinize the dystopian setting in Helen Simpson’s short story which is created by human impact through the lens of the Anthropocene. |
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