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Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature The Poetics of Insecurity Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America’s Decade of Disaster
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 159–161.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Lindsay Thomas Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature . By John Hay . Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2017 . ix, 238 pp. Cloth, $105.00 ; e-book available. The Poetics of Insecurity . By Johannes Voelz . Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press...
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Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics Legally Straight: Sexuality, Childhood, and the Cultural Value of Marriage
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 338–341.
Published: 01 June 2021
... into existence. The “intensive parenting” of the book’s title refers to extreme situations of parenting, such as the efforts of a father to keep his son alive in the postapocalyptic world of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) or the confinement of Jack and his Ma to a single room by an abusive captor in Emma...
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Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 879–881.
Published: 01 December 2018
... “to reconsolidate liveliness back into [the] human, at the same time that material practices in the life sciences make this sovereign fantasy harder and harder to maintain” (119); it labors to reclaim the future, even the postapocalyptic future, as the predestined and orderly terrain of the human. Ultimately...
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 211–214.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., the author seeks applications—and even enactions—of these “ensembles, constellations, and configurations” in postapocalyptic novels like the MaddAddam trilogy (Margaret Atwood, 2003–13), Blindness (José Saramago, 1995), the Parable series (Octavia E. Butler, 1993–98), and The Road (Cormac McCarthy, 2006...
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Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 838–840.
Published: 01 December 2015
... relationality” in which the end state
is not known in advance. These utopian explorations, Wagner-Lawlor demon-
strates, are often staged in postapocalyptic anti-utopias resulting from the
search for an ideal society that often excludes, scapegoats, and denigrates its
female members. Postmodern Utopias...
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Black Feminist Geohaptics and the Broken Earth
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 569–596.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... —Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M Archive , 2018 In Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s M Archive: After the End of the World (2018), a hybrid-genre speculative poem and archive that documents a postapocalyptic environmental future, geology is pictured as a wounded planetary body whose “deep gashes in the ground” shape...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 844–847.
Published: 01 December 2014
... “Desert-Ori-
ent-Nomad” that examines the desert in postapocalyptic writing by Cathy
Park Hong and in recent fiction about the Japanese American internment. By
reading the desert in terms of the arborescent and the rhizomatic, Song
advances a fascinating analysis of “desert time...
View articletitled, The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life the Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of US and Chinese Multiculturalisms
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COVID-19: Pandemic Reading
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 681–688.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Velázquez Antonio, and Makenzie Renee Fitzgerald—and their professor, Benjamin Reiss, the important role public humanities can play in such a crisis. For his part, Michael Bérubé embraces uncertainty, turning to Octavia Butler’s Parable novels to find in her postapocalyptic speculative fiction what he calls...
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Racial Disintegration: Biomedical Futurity at the Environmental Limit
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., the other issued forth on the lofty winds of Silicon Valley’s technoscientific promise; one postapocalyptic, one futuristic; one a problem, one a solution. The temporal proximity yet unfathomable distance between these white, Asian American, and Black bodies invites several questions: Are Flint’s children...
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Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 73–102.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Ellison’s 1967 science fiction story of the same name, and Sears and Mullich collaborated with Ellison himself during the game’s development. Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” (“IHNM” hereafter) depicts a postapocalyptic future wherein five human survivors are tortured with bodily mutations...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 185–204.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., Artificial Intelligence, and Other Algorithmic Producers of the Postapocalyptic Present .” In Pattern Discrimination , edited by Apprich Clemens , Chun Wendy Hui Kyong , Cramer Florian , and Steyerl Hito , 23 – 58 . Lüneburg : Meson Press . Crawford Kate . 2021 . Atlas...
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Reading Playboy for the Science Fiction
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 June 2015
... editor Robie Macauley would
go on to write A Secret History of a Time to Come (1979), a novel set in
the postapocalyptic future. And, famously, Robert Anton Wilson and
Robert Shea drew on conspiracy theories found in letters they received
while editing “The Playboy Forum” feature to produce...
