Remainders of the American Century : Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline.
2021
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Title
Remainders of the American Century : Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline.
Author
Bellamy, Brent Ryan.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780819580337
9780819580320
9780819580320
Published
Middletown, CT. 06459 : Wesleyan University Press, 2021.
Copyright
©2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (289 pages).
Dewey Decimal Classification
813.609372
Summary
Theorist Brent Ryan Bellamy illuminates the political unconscious of the American post-apocalyptic novel, exploring over 35 works to show how this subgenre expresses a growing anxiety about the decline of US hegemony. The shape of the future is defined by "the remainder:" what is left after the imagined catastrophe. Bellamy draws on a range of disciplinary fields including science fiction studies, American studies, energy humanities research, and critical race theory, to describe how this literary mode accommodates both a reactionary impulse and a progressive impetus for a new world.
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