INTRODUCTION Apocalypse Now: Critical Temporalities CHAPTER ONE: Biblical Parodies CHAPTER TWO: Apocalypse America CHAPTER THREE: The New Worlds of the Anthropocene CHAPTER FOUR: After the Neoliberal Future CONCLUSION The Post-Apocalyptic Archive BIBLIOGRAPHY
An innovative new exploration of contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction, from Margaret Atwood to Cormac McCarthy.
Diletta De Cristofaro is a Teaching Fellow in Contemporary Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK.
An interesting addition to the landscape of scholarship not only
specifically on speculative fiction and post/apocalyptic
literature, but more generally on contemporary literature, literary
theory, and cultural studies and for sure one fascinating read.
*Journal of Ecohumanism*
The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel is both interesting and
thought-provoking. De Cristofaro’s study creates an impetus to
reframe not only critical thinking around post-apocalyptic
narratives, but also the practical aspect of creating them.
*C21 Literature*
A theoretical tour de force.
*The Year's Work in English Studies*
The treatment of the works in The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic
Novel is accessible and lucidly presented. The extensive and
effective footnoting offers further avenues for exploration, and
the comprehensive explanations of De Cristofaro’s theorization of
critical temporalities ethically and accessibly integrates theory
across schools and disciplines to produce a rigorously
interdisciplinary work. This text may well become required reading
for students of contemporary literature—not only sf and speculative
theorists. Equally, it may be useful to scholars concerned with how
time shapes our present and whether we can act within the confines
of narratives of our temporal present and its location in
history.
*Chelsea Haith, Extrapolation*
Set to become a landmark study of 21st century fiction, this
wide-ranging, thought-provoking study is an invaluable resource,
representing original work of the highest order, from a writer both
engagingly readable and critically sophisticated.
*Judie Newman, OBE, Professor of American and Canadian Studies,
University of Nottingham*
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