CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE NEW ORDER IN GEORGES-JEAN ARNAUD'S LA COMPAGNIE DES GLACES : NOVUMS AND ALTERNATIVE WORLDS OR REFERENCE TO REALITY

Badia Mazboudi

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CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE NEW ORDER IN GEORGES-JEAN ARNAUD'S LA COMPAGNIE DES GLACES : NOVUMS AND ALTERNATIVE WORLDS OR REFERENCE TO REALITY

Authors:

Badia Mazboudi

Publisher:

Beirut Arab University Press

Journal:

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior Vol.5 Issue 2, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

10/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001951141

pISSN:

2789-8296

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Abstract:

 Apocalyptic, without utopia, the world, as described in La Compagnie des glaces, volumes 15 and 16 by G-J Arnaud (1983), is covered in ice, the origin of which is the anthropocene and capitalocene ecological crisis. These two series belong to the cli-fi genre, a neologism coined by Dan Bloom, and they are part of 98 episodes written by the author about her. Our purpose in this article is to study the new order that the climate crisis has engendered, an order because this world, which resembles our own, is governed by the Ice Companies that lay the railroads, which have become the nerve center of the earth and impose their diktat on a destitute population. The novum, which is “based on cognitive innovation is a phenomenon or relation of totalizing magnitude, which differs from the norm of reality shared by the author and the implied reader” (Suvin, 1977, p.63), as well as its “estrangement” (Ibid., p.14) are numerous in the novel and introduce us right into an alternative world, but the many allusions to our present, real world situate the action in a realism through its mode of presentation with the names of the companies, Pan-American, Siberian, Trans-European etc., as well as the laws governing them, which merely replicate the order of our world. It's clear that the author deploys referential illusions in the narrative to better incorporate the science-fictional element. What are the ways in which the novums are integrated into the story? What roles should they play? Through the study of cities, their ghettoization, the hegemony of scrap metal, names and characters and strange names, the study of the means of warfare, caught up in the spiral of cold and ice, we will ask ourselves whether, through them, the climate crisis is at the origin of the threats and dangers that threaten our world, or whether it is merely a pretext for keeping the world in bondage.

Article Details

CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE NEW ORDER IN GEORGES-JEAN ARNAUD'S LA COMPAGNIE DES GLACES : NOVUMS AND ALTERNATIVE WORLDS OR REFERENCE TO REALITY

Authors:

Badia Mazboudi

Publisher:

Beirut Arab University Press

Journal:

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior Vol.5 Issue 2, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

10/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001951141

pISSN:

2789-8296

novums

estrangement or strangeness

familiarization or defamiliarization

climate crisis

world order.

Issues

Article Details

CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE NEW ORDER IN GEORGES-JEAN ARNAUD'S LA COMPAGNIE DES GLACES : NOVUMS AND ALTERNATIVE WORLDS OR REFERENCE TO REALITY

Authors: Badia Mazboudi

Publisher: Beirut Arab University Press

Journal: BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior Vol.5 Issue 2, pp.0-0

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 10/2024

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001951141

pISSN: 2789-8296

novums

estrangement or strangeness

familiarization or defamiliarization

climate crisis

world order.

Issues

Authors:

Badia Mazboudi

Publisher:

Beirut Arab University Press

Journal:

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior Vol.5 Issue 2, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

10/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001951141

pISSN:

2789-8296