Un-American dreams : apocalyptic science fiction, disimagined community, and bad hope in the American century /

"After the end, the world will be un-American. This speculation forms the nucleus of Un-American Dreams, a study of US apocalyptic science fiction and the cultural politics of disimagined community in the short century of American superpower, 1945-2001. Between the atomic attacks on Hiroshima a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ramirez, J. Jesse (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2024.
Edition:	Paperback edition.
Series:	Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 74.
Subjects:	Apocalypse in literature. Apocalypse in motion pictures. National characteristics, American, in literature. National characteristics, American, in motion pictures. Science fiction, American > History and criticism. Américains au cinéma. Fin du monde au cinéma. Fin du monde dans la littérature. Apocalypse in literature Apocalypse in motion pictures National characteristics, American, in literature National characteristics, American, in motion pictures Science fiction, American Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Preface: The dreams in which I'm dying
Introduction: The uses of pseudo-apocalypse
1. The last American: Earth Abides, speculative anthropology, and settler utopianism
2. The revelation of Philip K. Dick
3. National insecurity in Night of the Living Dead
4. How to bring your kids up alien: Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy
5. Waiting for the Martians: Independence Day and the second American Century
Conclusion: Pseudo-apocalypse after the American century.