Climate Fiction & Anthropocene

Xausa, Chiara. Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene Master Narrative. ‘Ralahine Utopian Studies’ series, Oxford-New York: Peter Lang, ISBN: 9781803740942, ISSN: 1661-5875, 2025.

Xausa, Chiara. Eco-Anxiety and the Politics of Futurity in Contemporary Fiction. Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic for the ‘Environmental Cultures’ series. Forthcoming 2027.

Fabbri, Giulia, and Chiara Xausa (eds.). Special Issue “Feminist and Intersectional Ecologies in Transmedia Environmental Humanities,” de genere: Journal of Literary, Postcolonial, and Gender Studies 11, 2025.

Xausa, Chiara. “Learning to Live with Fire: Young Adult Fiction and Narratives of Climate Adaptation.” Oxford Intersections: Climate Adaptation (“Narratives of the Future” section), ed. By Kiu-wai Chu and Adeline Johns-Putra, forthcoming (journal article).

Xausa, Chiara. “Ecofeminism.” In Bloomsbury Handbook to Literatures of the Nonhuman, ed. by Marco Caracciolo and Erin James, forthcoming (book chapter, invited).

Baccolini, Raffaella, Arianna Preite and Chiara Xausa. “The Affective Politics of Repair: Navigating the End of the World through Storytelling and Care in Lindsey Drager’s The Avian Hourglass.” In Feminist Ecological Citizenship, ed. by Dipanwita Pal, forthcoming (book chapter, invited).

Xausa, Chiara. “Decolonizing the Anthropocene: ‘Slow Violence’ and Indigenous Resistance in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves.” Il Tolomeo - A Postcolonial Studies Journal 22, pp. 87–100, 2020 (journal article).

Xausa, Chiara. “Climate Fiction and the Crisis of Imagination: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria and The Swan Book.” Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal. Special issue “Climate Fiction, Friction & Fact” 8 (2), pp. 99–119, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v8i2.555(journal article).

Baccolini, Raffaella, and Chiara Xausa. “Gender Roles, Parenthood, and the Ethics of Care in Pandemic Cinema Pre- and Post-Covid-19.” EJES – The European Journal of English Studies 26 (3), pp. 399–418, 2022 (journal article).

Xausa, Chiara. “‘From This Love We’ll Demand Our Rights, and We Shall Win’. A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were.” Il Tolomeo: A Postcolonial Studies Journal 25, pp. 197–212, 2023 (journal article).

Xausa, Chiara. “Coming-of-Age as Ecocitizens in Young Adult Climate Fiction: Saci Lloyd’s The Carbon Diaries 2015 and 2017.” Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies 76 (2), pp. 295–312, 2023 (journal article).

Baccolini, Raffaella, and Chiara Xausa. “Ecofeminist Care at the End of the World: Collaborative Survival in Niccolò Ammaniti's Anna and Maria Rosa Cutrufelli's L'isola delle madri.” In Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities, ed. by Daniel A. Finch-Race, Emiliano Guaraldo, and Marco Malvestio, pp. 187–200, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023 (book chapter).

Xausa, Chiara. “La narrativa visionaria di Octavia E. Butler: vulnerabilità ribelle, convivenza multispecie e azione collettiva in Parable of the Sower e Wild Seed.” In Narrazioni Dall'antropocene. (Pre)visioni della crisi ambientale nella letteratura e nella cultura visuale, ed. by Giulia Fabbri, pp. 179- 202, Firenze: editpress, 2024 (book chapter).

Xausa, Chiara. “A Dissident Archive of Climate Change Fiction: Feminist Afrofuturist Literary Voices on the Anthropocene.” Altre Modernità: Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies 31, pp. 55–71, 2024 (journal article).

Xausa, Chiara. “‘Focused Anger’ and ‘Radical Hope’ in Young Adult Climate Fiction. An Affective Reading of Lauren James’s Green Rising.” In Narrating Multiplicities in Motion: The Transformative Power of Storytelling in Anglophone Cultures, ed. by Elena Ogliari Anna Pasolini and Carla Tempestoso, pp. 179–194, New York: Routledge, 2025 (book chapter).

Xausa, Chiara. “Collective Narration and the Politicization of Climate Distress.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2026 (journal article).