{"id":1473,"date":"2021-08-26T11:55:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T09:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afea.fr\/publications\/publication\/commonwealth-essays-and-studies-43-2-in-other-worlds-imagining-what-comes-next\/1473\/"},"modified":"2021-08-26T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T09:55:18","slug":"commonwealth-essays-and-studies-43-2-in-other-worlds-imagining-what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afea.fr\/publications\/publication\/commonwealth-essays-and-studies-43-2-in-other-worlds-imagining-what-comes-next\/1473\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Essays and Studies 43.2, In Other Worlds: Imagining What Comes Next"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cher.e.s coll\u00e8gues,La Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019Etude des Pays du Commonwealth (SEPC) est heureuse d\u2019annoncer la parution en ligne du num\u00e9ro 43.2 (2021) de la revue Commonwealth Essays and Studies<\/em>, intitul\u00e9 \u201cIn Other Worlds: Imagining What Comes Next\u201d et dirig\u00e9 par Christine Lorre-Johnston et Fiona McCann. Vous pouvez consulter le num\u00e9ro en ligne sur le portail OpenEdition:
\nhttps:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/ces\/<\/a>
\nbien cordialement,<\/p>\n

Christine Lorre-Johnston,
\nUniversit\u00e9 Sorbonne Nouvelle<\/a>,
\nDirectrice de la revue Commonwealth Essays and Studies<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

43.2 | 2021
\nIn Other Worlds<\/a><\/h1>\n

Imagining What Comes Next<\/h1>\n

Edited by Christine Lorre-Johnston and Fiona McCann<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the COVID pandemic was officially announced in France in March 2020 and the country went into lockdown, a lot changed almost overnight in unprecedented ways. Among more dramatic measures, academic conferences were cancelled or postponed, and editorial schedules were consequently disrupted. After the initial shock, we decided to work on a journal issue that would help us think about the crisis in terms of the questions with which we usually deal. \u201cIn Other Worlds: Imagining What Comes Next\u201d reflects on the ways in which postcolonial literature imaginatively addresses situations of crisis originating in pandemics and other ecological evolutions, and the political schemes that accompany them. The five essays (and related writer interview) analyse and illustrate how writers have developed creatively the genres of dystopia, speculative fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, and climate fiction to apprehend what is at stake in these crises, in narratives that confront readers with human vulnerability but also point at new forms of empowerment that are sources of hope.<\/p>\n