ABSTRACT
In this concluding chapter, a summary of discussions in the book is provided, reflecting on the effects of reading ‘death-facing ecology’ in the narratives of contemporary British and North American Environmental Crisis fiction. In particular, this chapter homes in on the way this thematic device allows narratives to deal with layers of difficulty in relation to the challenges of the crisis currently faced by humankind. The chapter offers some closing thoughts on the idea of death-facing, referring again to the works of Martin Hägglund and also drawing on some thoughts about mourning and nature from Catriona Sandilands. Emphasised, finally, is the way poststructuralist thought retains an influence in new materialist and speculative thought, illustrating the difficulties for fiction of representing the environmental crisis.
