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Book SynopsisDiletta De Cristofaro is a Teaching Fellow in Contemporary Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Trade ReviewAn interesting addition to the landscape of scholarship not only specifically on speculative fiction and post/apocalyptic literature, but more generally on contemporary literature, literary theory, and cultural studies and for sure one fascinating read. * Journal of Ecohumanism *
The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel is both interesting and thought-provoking. De Cristofaro’s study creates an impetus to reframe not only critical thinking around post-apocalyptic narratives, but also the practical aspect of creating them. * C21 Literature *
A theoretical tour de force. * The Year's Work in English Studies *
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The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel is accessible and lucidly presented. The extensive and effective footnoting offers further avenues for exploration, and the comprehensive explanations of De Cristofaro’s theorization of critical temporalities ethically and accessibly integrates theory across schools and disciplines to produce a rigorously interdisciplinary work. This text may well become required reading for students of contemporary literature—not only sf and speculative theorists. Equally, it may be useful to scholars concerned with how time shapes our present and whether we can act within the confines of narratives of our temporal present and its location in history. * Chelsea Haith, Extrapolation *
Set to become a landmark study of 21st century fiction, this wide-ranging, thought-provoking study is an invaluable resource, representing original work of the highest order, from a writer both engagingly readable and critically sophisticated. * Judie Newman, OBE, Professor of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham *
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Apocalypse Now: Critical Temporalities CHAPTER ONE: Biblical Parodies CHAPTER TWO: Apocalypse America CHAPTER THREE: The New Worlds of the Anthropocene CHAPTER FOUR: After the Neoliberal Future CONCLUSION The Post-Apocalyptic Archive BIBLIOGRAPHY
