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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: post-apocalyptic novel in the twenty-first century
    sub title: modernity beyond salvage
  name:
    name part: Hicks, Heather J.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 208 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, major Anglophone authors have flocked to a literary form once considered lowbrow 'genre fiction,' the post-apocalyptic novel. Calling on her broad knowledge of the history of apocalyptic literature, Hicks examines the most influential post-apocalyptic novels written since the beginning of the new millennium, including works by Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Cormac McCarthy, Jeanette Winterson, Colson Whitehead and Paolo Bacigalupi. Situating her careful readings in relationship to the scholarship of a wide range of historians, theorists and literary critics, she argues that these texts use the post-apocalyptic form to reevaluate modernity in the context of the new century's political, economic and ecological challenges. In the immediate wake of disaster, the characters in these novels desperately scavenge the scraps of the modern world. But what happens to modernity beyond these first moments of salvage? In a period when postmodernism no longer defines cultural production, Hicks convincingly demonstrates that these writers employ conventions of post-apocalyptic genre fiction to reengage with key features of modernity, from historical thinking and the institution of nationhood to rationality and the practices of literacy itself.
  table of contents: Introduction: Modernity Beyond Salvage -- The Mother of All Apocalypses in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake -- 'This Time Round': David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and the Apocalyptic Problem of Historicism -- Friday at the End of the World: Apocalyptic Change and the Legacy of Robinson Crusoe in Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods -- 'Stop! Can You Hear the Eagle Roar?': Zombie Kitsch and the Apocalyptic Sublime in Colson Whitehead's Zone One -- 'The Raw Materials': Petromodernity, Retromodernity, and the Bildungsroman in Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker.
  note: Heather J. Hicks.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: American fiction
    temporal: 21st century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Apocalypse in literature
  subject:
    topic: End of the world in literature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: American
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: European
    topic: General
  classification: PS374.A65 H53 2016
  classification: 813/.60935
  identifier: 9781137553669
  identifier: 1137553669
  identifier: 2015030194
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150929
    record change date: 20160415091415.0
    record identifier: in00003617875