...Lucas Hollister Abstract This essay engages with the inclination of recent ecocritical thought to disqualify postapocalyptic fiction and, often by extension, dystopian fiction from the ranks of those responses to the Anthropocene deemed helpful or appropriate. After a survey of recent antidystopian...

... and sometimes circumnavigate the Hexagon. ­These peripatetic narratives include works of fiction and nonfiction alike. But they also count ­those of a more indeterminate variety, texts that display varying gradients of referentiality, authenticity, and documentation that effectively blur the boundary between t­...

... “Sánchez impone su ‘nueva normalidad,’” it showed the president at the entrance of a cavern shaped like the map of Spain and facing a postapocalyptic industrial landscape. The narrative was evident: it confronted us with a rhetoric of the end of the world (or the end of a world) and the advent...