ISBN-13
9780994606808ISBN-10
099460680XLanguage
engResearch statement
Background
Climate fiction is an important and growing literary genre. As Amatav Ghosh (2017 p.63) argues in The Great Derangement, we are presently in deep need of narratives which reckon with 'forces of unthinkable magnitude that create unbearably intimate connections over vast gaps in time and space.' By elaborating data and analysis into narrative, literature can help people 'see' the complexities of climate change, and connect their own and others' affective responses to transformations already underway. Climate fiction, or CliFi, can 'project an ecological vision of the consequences of climate change' and form imaginative scaffolding for considering the implicati
Contribution
The Island Will Sink is a novel that attends to the complexity of climate change, and considers the role of media spectacle and global inequality in its narrative treatment. It utilises aesthetic techniques of the postmodern novel by decentering perspective, experimenting with genre and hybridity of form. It also attends to ecocritical views of writing environments by highlighting literary tendency to collapse the natural world into a backdrop for human drama and exceptionalism.
Significance
The Island Will Sink was the first novel published by Brow Books in 2016. Its success helped this new independent Australian publisher go on to publish more than 15 new titles in experimental and unconventional forms in the preceding three years. The novel was positively reviewed in The Monthly, The Australian, The Saturday Paper, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. It has been reprinted three times since publication, and was longlisted for the Richell Prize.Publication classification
JO3 Original Creative Works – Textual WorkScale
NTRO MajorCopyright notice
2016, Briohny DoyleRecognition, awards & prizes
Longlisted Richell Prize for first bookPublisher
The Lifted BrowPlace of publication
Melbourne, Vic.Source
The Island Will Sink
