摘要
The deterioration of the environment caused by climate change has been entangled with other factors to wane people’s desire for having children.This paper takes two climate short stories,The Smog Society by the Chinese SF author Chen Qiufan and Diary of an Interesting Year by the British writer Helen Simpson as case studies,comparing the writing of the climate change induced fertility anxiety in the two stories from both the individual and community perspectives.By associating the textual analysis with the social reality about fertility rate in China and Britain,the paper explores performance and coping methods of fertility anxiety in the face of climate crisis,aimed at providing possible solutions for the sustainable development of population.
基金
This paper is a periodic achievement of the 2021 Shanghai college Students’innovation and entrepreneurship project“Cross-cultural Comparative Study of Short Climate Fictions”(Project No.SH2021148),and is supported by the scientific research project course“Research on American Climate Fictions in the 21st Century”of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.
