Haunted Technonature : Anthropocene Coloniality in Ng Yi-Sheng’s Lion City

• This chapter moves away from the established strand of literary ecocriticism in which haunted nature is situated in the Anthropocene and instead examines how Anthropocene thinking itself becomes subject to haunting in speculative fiction. To make this argument, it focuses on Ng Yi-Sheng’s collection Lion City (2018): a text that maps connections between Singapore’s colonial history and the nation’s contemporary status as a model for climate survival through geoengineering and “technonature.” This analysis proposes that rather than mobilizing the speculative to describe human effects on the biosphere (as much criticism suggests), Ng’s tales excavate legacies of environmental injustice repressed by the paradigm of anthropogenesis. In doing so, the narrative critiques Anthropocene accounts of emergency and highlights the necessity of decolonizing the narrative of crisis itself.

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HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturstudier (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Literatures (hsv//eng)

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English literature

Engelska med litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning

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