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This article explores the concept of constructive alienation as a response to environmental fiction's desensitization to the climate crisis. It aims to investigate how this concept can resensitize readers and characters to environmental issues.

April 12, 2026Orbis LitterarumOpen Access

“Strange can be quite normal”: How the environmental crisis becomes present in Han Kang's and Samanta Schweblin's “constructively alienating” environmental fiction

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Analyzes how constructive alienation reworks environmental fiction to enhance emotional engagement with the climate crisis.

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This article explores the concept of constructive alienation as a response to environmental fiction's desensitization to the climate crisis. It aims to investigate how this concept can resensitize readers and characters to environmental issues.
Analyzes works by Han Kang and Samanta Schweblin to illustrate the concept of constructive alienation.
Examines the connection between realism and feminist speculations in environmental narratives.
Discusses the impact of narrative structures on understanding the climate crisis.
Constructive alienation is shown to enhance emotional engagement with environmental crises.
The narratives utilized exhibit disorienting elements that challenge traditional apocalyptic portrayals.
The analysis reveals a new dimension of environmental fiction, linking structural crises to familiar yet unfamiliar experiences.

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Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69db37f94fe01fead37c6212 https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.70042

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