Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline

Bellamy, Brent Ryan

ISBN 10: 0819580325 / ISBN 13: 9780819580320

Edité par Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2021

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline
• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT
• Date de parution: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0819580325
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780819580320
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: First Edition.
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

Understanding US culture through the post-apocalyptic novel

This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to the present as reflections of a growing anxiety about the decline of US hegemony. Post-apocalyptic novels imagine human responses to the aftermath of catastrophe. The shape of the future they imagine is defined by "the remainder," when what is left behind expresses itself in storytelling tropes. Since 1945 the portentous fate of the United States has shifted from the irradiated future of nuclear holocaust to the saltwater wash of global warming. Theorist Brent Ryan Bellamy illuminates the political unconscious of post-apocalyptic writing, drawing on a range of disciplinary fields, including science fiction studies, American studies, energy humanities research, and critical race theory. From George R. Stewart's Earth Abides to N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season, Remainders of the American Century describes the tension between a reactionary impulse and the progressive impetus for a new world.

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BRENT RYAN BELLAMY (Toronto, ON, CA) is an instructor in the English and cultural studies departments at Trent University and is co-editor of An Ecotopian Lexicon and Materialism and the Critique of Energy. He teaches courses in science fiction, graphic fiction, American literature and culture, and critical worldbuilding. He currently studies narrative, US literature and culture, science fiction, and the cultures of energy.