Abstract:In this essay, I consider postmodernist tendencies in two recent climate change novels, Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (2013) and Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea (2014). While I hesitate to claim that these herald a distinct postmodern turn in climate change fiction, I argue that these novels’ postmodernist self-awareness constitutes a promising new direction for fiction in the Anthropocene. Displaying a postcolonial awareness and deploying the postmodernist strategies of metafiction and magical realism, the novels undermine the omniscience of third-person narrators and the reliability of focalizers in order simultaneously to destabilize realist, imperialist, and anthropocentric constructions of the world. Indeed, they not only question the dominance of master-narratives; they question domination per se. That is, in these novels, voice itself comes under suspicion as an anthropocentric fallacy.

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剩下的就是沉默：气候变化小说中的后现代和后殖民可能性

摘要：在这篇文章中，我考虑了最近两部气候变化小说中的后现代主义倾向，Alexis Wright 的《天鹅之书》（2013）和 Chang-rae Lee 的《论满海》（2014）。虽然我犹豫是否声称这些预示着气候变化小说的明显后现代转向，但我认为这些小说的后现代主义自我意识构成了人类世小说的一个有希望的新方向。这些小说展示了后殖民意识并运用了元小说和魔幻现实主义的后现代主义策略，破坏了第三人称叙述者的无所不知和聚焦者的可靠性，以便同时破坏世界的现实主义、帝国主义和人类中心主义结构。事实上，他们不仅质疑主叙事的主导地位；他们质疑统治本身。也就是说，在这些小说中，