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Journal Article
The Complexity of Community
2022
Overview
In light of the chaotic and tragic histories of Caribbean nations, including recent climate catastrophes, Buckell's narratives encourage us to \"make more room for Indigenous and non-Western voices to modify, critique, and undermine\" our current global economic order, an essential task when the orthodox logical positivism underpinning capitalism helped to lead us squarely into our current crisis (Ingwersen 423). [...]authors such as Buckell and Karen Lord imagine distant futures populated with creolized cities; Nalo Hopkinson and Curdella Forbes consider the role of feminine, Indigenous knowledges in near-future scenarios where climate change disrupts the lived urban experience; and Stephanie Saulter weaves a post-humanist paean to community in the face of both corporate and societal oppression (see, e.g., Lord; Buckell, Crystal Rain; Hopkinson; Forbes; Saulter). [...]the verticalized setting of Sly Mongoose, which takes place on a Venus-like planet, provides Buckell with a material structure that mirrors the novel's content, that is, a compelling allegory of racial, economic, and ecological inequity. Buckell's work, in addition to other Caribbean SF authors (e.g., Saulter's ©Evolution trilogy), raises essential questions about-and allows us to reimagine-urban sustainability for a world that is in dire need of disruptive innovation to better accommodate large urban populations and also combat climate change.4 By focusing on the \"urbanization of nature\" (Kaika and Swyngedouw 462) and its socioecological import for human and non-human matter, Caribbean SF authors continue to help us make sense of where we are going.
Publisher
Journal of West Indian Literature,The University of the West Indies
