ABSTRACT
Anna Kirsch analyzes representations of what she terms “wild justice” in her chapter on the work of satirical ecological crime writer Carl Hiaasen. Kirsch centres particularly on manifestations of the “carnivalesque” in Hiaasen’s fiction, and how this becomes a tool through which he attempts to influence his readers’ “moral decision-making”. Despite the gleeful “sense of schadenfreudic delight” that Hiaasen clearly takes in his texts’ depictions of radical eco-revenge, Kirsch questions whether this mode of carnivalesque protest has lost its potency in an era when governments are increasingly turning to carnivalesque performance themselves as a mode of political discourse.
