Putting the “post” in “post-apocalyptic” by Tai, Leon Cheng Hao

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Catatonic Futures and Post-Apocalyptic Capital by Tomas Vergara

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Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by SCHNEIDER ANA-KARINA

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Indigeneity as a Post-Apocalyptic Genealogical Metaphor by Arcia Tecun

“…As a critically reflexive story work and auto-ethnographic contemplation it begins by confronting a presumed genealogy in a post-apocalyptic world of coloniality through a global Indigenous lens. …”
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Appositions: The Future in Solarpunk and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Katarzyna Więckowska

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Climate Migration in Post-Apocalyptic Narratives on the Mainstream Screen by Linda Koncz, Alex Villas Boas

“…Through the perspective of ‘catastrophising thought’, this work undertakes a comparative analysis of five post-apocalyptic films dealing with climate migration: <i>Waterworld, Snowpiercer</i>, <i>Interstellar</i>, <i>Mad Max: Fury Road</i> and <i>Mortal Engines</i> in order to identify recurring themes within their dystopian societies. …”
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The Representational Impasse of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: The Pesthouse by Jim Crace by Diletta De Cristofaro

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Post-Apocalyptic Amazement: Aesthetics and Historical Consciousness in the Natural Contract by Toni Hildebrandt

“…This selective counter-reading of Serres against Benjamin and the films of Ben Rivers ultimately aims at the restitution of a historical-philosophical argument to the status of art in the natural contract or—in a broader sense—in the Anthropocene; more precisely, it also pursues the conception of an aesthetics of amazement in post-apocalyptic narrative time. …”
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How Makers and Preppers Converge in Premodern and Post-Apocalyptic Ruin by Josef Nguyen

“…I argue that the convergence of contemporary making with apocalyptic preparation in the US articulates making practices as vital for individual survival for apocalyptic futures as well as constructs nonwhite and non-Western geographies as simultaneously premodern and post-apocalyptic sites of ruin. US maker culture, while drawing inspiration from these geographies, suggests that such locales will be unaffected by apocalypse and, thus, cannot prepare for it. …”
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Speech Acts in Post-Apocalyptic Games: The Last of Us (2014) by Colăcel Onoriu

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Critical Temporalities: Station Eleven and the Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel by Diletta De Cristofaro

“…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. …”
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Post-apocalyptic Subjectivity and Nature/Culture Duality in Lois Lowry’s The Giver by Younes Poorghorban, Bakhtiar Sadjadi

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A Guiding Line? Rethinking the Road in American Post-Apocalyptic Narratives by Cécile DO HUU

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The Post-Apocalyptic Space, Character, and Morality in Middle-Grade Children’s Literature by Vlad-Madalin Marinescu

“…The question of how characters may further solidify moral right and wrong in the post-apocalyptic setting of my story The Neverending Sea became a focus for my research. …”
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Review: Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Susan Watkins (2020) by Jade Louise Hinchliffe

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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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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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