The End
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The End

Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters

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The End

Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters

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About This Book

Throughout history, apocalypse fiction has explored social injustice through fantasy, sci-fi and religious imagery, but what can we learn from it? Why do we escape very real disaster via dystopia? Why do we fantasise about the end of the world?The word "apocalypse" has roots in ancient Greek, with apo ("off") and kalýptein ("cover") combining to form apokålypsis, meaning to uncover or reveal. In considering apocalypse fiction across culture and its role in how we manage, manifest and imagine social, economic and political crises, Goh navigates what this genre reveals about our contemporary anxieties, and why we turn to disaster time and again.From blockbusters like War of the Worlds to The Handmaid's Tale and far beyond, we venture through global pandemics to the climate crisis, seeking real answers in the midst of our fictional destruction.Let's journey to the end.

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Publisher
404 Ink
Year
2021
ISBN
9781912489398
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Cultura popular

Table of contents

  1. The End
  2. Spoilers
  3. Content Note
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: The Pandemic Disaster
  6. Chapter 2: The Climate Disaster
  7. Chapter 3: The Extraterrestrial Disaster
  8. Chapter 4: The Social Disaster
  9. Conclusion: After the Blast
  10. References
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. About the Author
  13. About the Inklings series