Panel 10 (Red Salon/ Volksbühne)
Apokalypse No!
With Catherine Bush (CA), Waubgeshig Rice (CA) (stream).
Moderation: Sieglinde Geisel
Climate Writing or Climate Fiction can take very different forms in the same climate zone. In the novel by Catherine Bush, the windy Blaze Island in Northern Canada becomes a sanctuary for an American climate scientist and his daughter. While the youth (Miranda and Caleb) experience self and love in Shakespearean spirit, the old toil away on a questionable Civil Climate Science.
In an Arctic reservation of the Anishinaabe as described by Waubgeshig Rice in his thriller, the whites come into the picture only after the collapse of their civilization. A ending, that the whites perceive as the apocalypse, but the First Nations already know – "The world isn't ending. Our world isn't ending. It already ended. It ended when the Zhaagnash [the whites] came into our original home down south on that bay and took it from us."
Catherine Bush is a Canadian author. In 2019, she was a Fiction meets Science Fellow (FMS) in Germany. FMS is a research project at the University of Bremen and at the University of Oldenburg that links science, literature, and art. She is a member of the Climate Fiction Writers League. "Blaze Island", a cli-fi novel, is her fifth novel.
Titles:
• Blaze Island, 2020
Waubgeshig Rice is a Canadian author and journalist. He is a member of the Anishinabe Indigenous people, who reside in the Subarctic. Rice lives alternately on the Wasauksing Reserve and in Greater Sudbury. He has published short stories, and the cli-fi novel "Moon of the Crusted Snow" is his second novel. At the moment, Waubgeshig Rice is working on a sequel to the novel.
Titles:
• Moon of the Crusted Snow, 2018