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3rd International Environmental Humanities Conference: Ecocriticisms in the 21st Century, Nevşehir, Turkey, 20 - 22 May 2024, (Unpublished)
Climate change fiction as the new literary genre of the contemporary era has emerged and developed as a response to climatic changes in the age of Anthropocene. Climate change narratives offer to comprehend the complex issue of climate change from diverse aspects ranging from the impacts of ecological catastrophes on the embodiment of human and nonhuman bodies to the political and social dimensions of environmental issues. Affective ecocriticism as a recent theoretical development of ecocritical discourse aligns with material ecocriticism in affirming the potentialities of all material beings and forces to affect and to be affected by each other through trans-corporeal interactions among various bodies, material agencies, discursive systems, nonhuman others, and environmental forces. Therefore, the affinities between material and affective ecocritical discourses could be effective in recognizing the agentic, transformative and affective capabilities of the material world and the interactive ways in which humans and nonhuman elements are involved in ecological relationships as represented in climate change narratives. This study aims to explore how the alignment of affective and material ecocritical discourses could become functional to reveal that climate change fiction narratives hold the potential to engage readers affectively with the issue of climate change and hence promote ecological consciousness.