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Boast, Hannah (2020) The water wars novel. Humanities, 9 (3). 76. doi:10.3390/h9030076

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Abstract

‘Water wars’ are back. Conflicts in Syrian, Yemen and Israel/Palestine are regularly framed as motivated by water and presented as harbingers of a world to come. The return of ‘water wars’ rhetoric, long after its 1990s heyday, has been paralleled by an increasing interest among novelists in water as a cause of conflict. This literature has been under-explored in existing work in the Blue Humanities, while scholarship on cli-fi has focused on scenarios of too much water, rather than not enough. In this article I catalogue key features of what I call the ‘water wars novel’, surveying works by Paolo Bacigalupi, Sarnath Banerjee, Varda Burstyn, Assaf Gavron, Emmi Itäranta, Karen Jayes and Cameron Stracher, writing from the United States, India, Canada, Israel, Finland and South Africa. I identify the water wars novel as a distinctive and increasingly prominent mode of ‘cli-fi’ that reveals and obscures important dimensions of water crises of the past, present and future.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0441 Literary History
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Water in literature
Journal or Publication Title: Humanities
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, Open Access Publishing
ISSN: 2076-0787
Official Date: 5 August 2020
Dates:
DateEvent
5 August 2020Published
16 July 2020Accepted
Volume: 9
Number: 3
Article Number: 76
DOI: 10.3390/h9030076
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
ECF-2019-324Leverhulme Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000275

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