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

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

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Appositions: The Future in Solarpunk and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Katarzyna Więckowska

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Toward a Post-Apocalyptic Rule of Law by Jeffrey Benjamin Meyers

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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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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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On the Theme of Nostalgia in Paolo Bacigalupi’s Post-Apocalyptic Novel The Windup Girl by Murat KABAK

“…This article aims to investigate the role of nostalgia in a post-apocalyptic dystopian setting with a focus on various experiences of nostalgia. …”
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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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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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Rex Hobart, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Me: Meditations on the Future of Post-Apocalyptic Honky Tonk by Shane Rowse

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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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Faith and reason in the mad subjectivity: Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic narrative The Road by Taghizadeh, Ali, Ghaderi, Ali

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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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