Frankenstein's Monster Goes West: Hernan Diaz's In the Distance, Cli-Fi, and the Literature of Limitation.

  • Published In: Modern Fiction Studies, 2023, v. 69, n. 1. P. 143 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Vermeulen, Pieter 3 of 3

Abstract

This essay reads Hernan Diaz's novel In the Distance as both a rewriting of the traditional western (especially John Ford's The Searchers) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in a climate-changed world. Over and against the insistence on transcendence and conquest in those documents of nineteenth-century imperial and technological overreach, In the Distance both formally and thematically conveys an ethos of limitation. By insisting on the exhaustion of former possibilities, the novel provides a new template for climate fiction beyond its current dominant speculative and realist modes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Modern Fiction Studies. 2023/03, Vol. 69, Issue 1, p143
  • Document Type:Literary Criticism
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0026-7724
  • DOI:10.1353/mfs.2023.0006
  • Accession Number:162706487
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