Boundaries of the Human in the Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel: McCarthy and Houellebecq. by Valentino Baldi

“…This paper focuses on the analysis of Houellebecq’s La possibilité d’une île and McCarthy’s The Road with the objective to trace how the representation of the human changes in the contemporary post-apocalyptic novel. The article is based on references to the theories of Agamben, Bauman and Žižek and it develops an idea of literature as return of the repressed theorised by Francesco Orlando.…”
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Post-Apocalyptic Redefinition of Homeless Spaces in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road by Samuel Tascón Olmedo

“…Homelessness undergoes an important change in a post-apocalyptical setting: it becomes the norm, the only reality for the survivors. …”
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The blazing world and the hunger games : treatment of gender in post-apocalyptic narratives by Foo, Samantha Ting Yee

“…Post-apocalyptic genres then become a plausible breeding ground for a balanced and equal gender dynamics; clean slate for women’s imaginations. …”
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Faith, Fallout, and the Future: Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction in the Early Postwar Era by Michael Scheibach

“…This article discusses how six post-apocalyptic science fiction novels dealt with this dilemma and presented their visions of the future; more important, it argues that these novels not only reflect the views of many Americans in the early Cold War era, but also provide relevant insights into the role of religion during these complex and controversial years to reframe the belief that an apocalypse was inevitable.…”
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POST-APOCALYPTIC SURROGATE IDEOLOGY: BIOPOLITICS OF CYBERSPACE: IN A HOLLYWOOD HORROR MOVIE by Andrey G. Nekita, Sergey A. Malenko, Olga V. Shirokova

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An exit out of the 'hive': post-apocalyptic fictions of data capitalism and technological acceleration by Rebecca Bevington

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Cormac McCarthy’s The Road Revisited: Memory and Language in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Kristjan Mavri

“…During times of existential unease, post-apocalyptic fiction imagines a depopulated world—a world destroyed by war, pestilence, ecocide, or cosmological judgment. …”
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JUVENILE PHOBIAS OF POST-APOCALYPTIC POWER: THE MORAL DEVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE MILLSTONES OF BIOPOLITICS by Sergey A. Malenko, Andrey G. Nekita

“…The use of occupational segregation technologies is becoming the leading biopolitical, communitarian strategy of post-apocalyptic, totalitarian power.…”
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Overlapping Traumas: Revisiting Trauma in Post-apocalyptic World of Anna Kavan’s Ice by Mehtap Tunahan, İsmail Avcu

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Atwood’s Pre and Post-Apocalyptic World: Manifestation of the Levinasian Subject in the Realm of the Other by نگار منفرد سعید, زکریا بزدوده, سیروس امیری

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Rex Hobart, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Me: Meditations on the Future of Post-Apocalyptic Honky Tonk by Shane Rowse

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Memory, Trauma, and the Maternal: Post-Apocalyptic View of the Chernobyl/Chornobyl/Charnobyl Nuclear Disaster by Hanna Chuchvaha

“…It is a city that experienced a disastrous nuclear explosion in 1986 that bequeathed a post-apocalyptic landscape and an eloquent demonstration of the Anthropocene. …”
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Meal of The Day After Tomorrow. Ideas about Food and Nourishment in Post-Apocalyptic Movies by Ana Banić Grubišić

“…The paper considers cultural ideas about food and nutrition in movies depicting a post-apocalyptic world. Food/nutrition in these movies functions as a metaphor which is used to depict the future regression of human civilization to a hypothetical previous stage of development. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: Remainders of the American Century: Post- Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline by Adam McLain

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Meal of The Day After Tomorrow. Ideas about Food and Nourishment in Post-Apocalyptic Movies by Ana Banić Grubišić

Subjects: “…post-apocalyptic movies…”
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Anarchetypal Journeys in Post-apocalyptic Narratives. The Implacable Darkness of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road by Maria Barbu

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Victim-Warriors and Restorers—Heroines in the Post-Apocalyptic World of Mad Max: Fury Road by Anna Reglińska-Jemioł

Subjects: “…post-apocalyptic utopia…”
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Repelling the Invasion of the “Other”: Post-Apocalyptic Alien Shooter Videogames Addressing Contemporary Cultural Attitudes by Ryan Lizardi

“… In the current videogame landscape, a great deal of first-person shooters are being made that depict a post-apocalyptic invasion by an “alien” force that must be repelled. …”
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The Limits of Language as the Limits of the World: Cormac McCarthy’s and David Markson’s Post-Apocalyptic Novels by Paulina Ambroży

“…The article examines the correlation between the world and the word in two novels which engage with a post-apocalyptic scenario: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress (1988) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006). …”
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Literary visions of post-apocalyptic worlds in the works of Mary Shelley, Margaret Atwood and Maggie Gee by Gönül Bakay

“…I will then move on to examine how increasing ecological destruction leads to (post)-apocalyptic visions in the works of Margaret Atwood and Maggie Gee. …”
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