Climate Grief and Narrative Repair: Ecological Trauma in Contemporary Anglophone Ecofiction

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This paper studies how recent Anglophone ecofiction represents climate grief as an ecological trauma that destabilises normative notions of home, futurity, agency and human exceptionalism. According to a review, while climate fiction has been approached through categories of apocalypse, risk, scientific communication, and speculative futurity, the study, it is argued that a major contribution of recent environmental novels lies in their power to transform planetary crisis into affective narrative experience. Using the approach of ecocriticism, trauma theory, affect studies, and the multi-disciplinary idea of ecological grief, the paper presents close comparative readings of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior (2012), Richard Powers’s 2018’s The Overstory, and Amitav Ghosh’s 2019’s Gun Island. Chosen because they exemplify three interrelated but different kinds of ecological trauma: species dislocation, tree mourning, and climate migration. The article advances the idea of narrative repair to capture how contemporary ecofiction transformation the ecological grief passively endured in the face of environmental catastrophe into critical attention, relation awareness, and multispecies responsibilities. The novels are not merely representations of environmental loss but rather an act of re-organization pertaining to narrative form that functions around damaged habitats, nonhuman agency and instability of temporal scales. By doing so, they expand the ethical function of the novel in the Anthropocene from a human-centered witnessing to a more planetary and more-than-human accountability.