Homecoming: A Climate Fiction Reading
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
Ellensburg
Event Website
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source
Start Date
16-5-2021
End Date
22-5-2021
Keywords
Climate Change, Speculative Fiction, Narrative
Abstract
How does the concept of home grow with you? Every year, salmon return to the streams they were born in to lay their eggs and die. Likewise, humans will always feel a pull towards what we consider home. This reading of a short piece of climate fiction will explore themes of migration, both of the natural world and of our relation to it. Drawing on techniques and knowledge gained in a recent class on climate change in history and literature, this piece of fiction tells the story of a school teacher who returns home to the Pacific Northwest, and how she passes on lessons about the salmon that return there every year.
Recommended Citation
Singleton, Kathleen, "Homecoming: A Climate Fiction Reading" (2021). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 9.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2021/CAH/9
Department/Program
Douglas Honors College
Additional Mentoring Department
History
Additional Mentoring Department
Douglas Honors College
Additional Mentoring Department
https://cwu.studentopportunitycenter.com/homecoming-a-climate-fiction-reading/
Homecoming: A Climate Fiction Reading
Ellensburg
How does the concept of home grow with you? Every year, salmon return to the streams they were born in to lay their eggs and die. Likewise, humans will always feel a pull towards what we consider home. This reading of a short piece of climate fiction will explore themes of migration, both of the natural world and of our relation to it. Drawing on techniques and knowledge gained in a recent class on climate change in history and literature, this piece of fiction tells the story of a school teacher who returns home to the Pacific Northwest, and how she passes on lessons about the salmon that return there every year.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2021/CAH/9
Faculty Mentor(s)
Tamara Caulkins and Matthew Martinson