Colonial crises of imagination, climate fictions, and English literary education

This paper argues that the contemporary climate crises we see around our planet correlate with a colonial crisis of (literary) imagination. The author engages Caribbean literary scholar Sylvia Wynter and other anti-colonial scholars to trace how imagination is rooted in euro-western humanism racial capitalism governs west, stories forms frame it, whose logics continue be rehearsed across disciplines—particularly English literatures taught school. then understand histories this its link crises, perhaps paradoxically access literature’s speculative potential imagine different futures, educators need prioritize critiques are embedded relationship ecology.