Aspects of the Post-apocalyptic Novel in the U.S. from 2006-2019
Scott, Ian;Coghlan, Joy Michelle
The University of Manchester (United Kingdom)
2020
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Ph.D.
The University of Manchester (United Kingdom)
2020
Since the new millennium, major Anglophone authors, including Colson Whitehead, Max Brooks, Sandra Newman, Lionel Shriver, Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Chris Beckett, Omar El Akkad and Christopher Brown have popularised post-apocalyptic genre fiction. This popularity appears to be a formal response to new challenges in the twenty-first century, triggered by global trends which range from anthropocentric global warming to globalisation.