Postcolonial & Decolonial Ecologies

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.

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. “Water Politics and Intersectionality: A Postcolonial Ecofeminist Reading of Karen Jayes’s For the Mercy of Water.” In Postcolonial Ecofeminist Literature, ed. by Douglas Vakoch, forthcoming with Liverpool UP (book chapter).

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).

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. “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. “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. “Climate Change, Reproductive Justice, and Biocolonialism in Future Home of the Living God by Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich.” de genere: Journal of Literary, Postcolonial, and Gender Studies 11, pp. 215–229, 2025 (journal article).

Xausa, Chiara. “From the Abyss of the Middle Passage to the Currents of Hydrofeminism: ‘Getting Wet’ with the Ocean in Rivers Solomon’s The Deep.” Humanities 2025 (journal article).

Preite, Arianna, and Chiara Xausa. “New Technologies of Re/Production and a World beyond the Family: Tlotlo Tsamaase’s Womb City.” From the European South: A Transdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Humanities 16, pp. 91–110, 2025 (journal article).

Xausa, Chiara. “Metamorfosi acquatiche ecotransfemministe e decoloniali.” In RadicAzioni. Corpi, nature, tecnologie, ed. by Claudia Cerulo and Rachele Cinerari, pp. 137–154, Napoli: Orthotes Editrice, 2026 (book chapter).

D’Amato, Gabriele, and Chiara Xausa. “Transecological Temporalities in Postapocalyptic Caribbean Fiction.” Modern Fiction Studies, accepted for publication, forthcoming 2027 (journal article).