The Great Derangement

In The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh explores our failure to comprehend the violence and scale of climate change within literature, history, and politics. Ghosh showcases how the extreme nature of today's climate events makes them challenging to imagine and accept, with serious literary fiction automatically consigned to other genres. Aside from examining the history of the carbon economy's tangled global story, Ghosh also points out that politics and literature have become personal moral adventures instead of collective action. Ghosh argues that fiction is the best-suited cultural form to imagine other forms of human existence and confront the most pressing issue of our time: climate change.