Moolla, FatimaMalgas, Lester2022-08-022024-10-302022-08-022024-10-302022https://hdl.handle.net/10566/16472Magister Artium - MAThis is a work of ecocriticism—the interdisciplinary study of literature and environment— which takes as its point of departure the environmental and literary insights of Amitav Ghosh in The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016). According to Ghosh the conventions of literary realism, and the context within which those conventions gained ascendancy, present a range of shortcomings in respect of the depiction of climate change in literature.enAfrican literatureEcocriticismScience fictionMagical realismEnglish writingUniversity of the Western Cape