Critical Temporalities: Station Eleven and the Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel

This article examines Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014) in the context of the growing body of contemporary post-apocalyptic fictions and what I argue is their critique of the apocalyptic tradition. Traditional apocalyptic narratives reveal a utopian teleology to history, a conception of...

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Main Author: Diletta De Cristofaro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2018-11-01
Series:Open Library of Humanities
Online Access:https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4531/