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Pandemic Apocalypse In Between Dystopias: Observations from Post-Apocalyptic Novels

Investigating the novels that deal with a pandemic apocalypse, this study highlights the dystopian elements preceding and following the end of the world. Inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic in the 21st century, it relates the fears of the pandemic to the literary history and political conditions nurtu...

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Publicado en:	URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles,
Autor Principal:	Al-Aghberi, Munir Ahmed
Formato:	Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:	Anglais
Publicado:	Angles 2021
Sujets:	capitalisme dystopie apocalypse pandémie COVID-19 post-apocalypse roman Shelley Mary Atwood Margaret London Jack Mandel Emily St. John Matheson Richard King Stephen Dashner Jamesen capitalism dystopia pandemic novel Dashner James
Acceso en liña:	Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM

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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_4595 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.4595 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.4595 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/4595 2021-12-17T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9n1p https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Pandemic Apocalypse In Between Dystopias: Observations from Post-Apocalyptic Novels Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Al-Aghberi, Munir Ahmed capitalisme dystopie apocalypse pandémie COVID-19 post-apocalypse roman Shelley Mary Atwood Margaret London Jack Mandel Emily St. John Matheson Richard King Stephen Dashner Jamesen capitalism dystopia apocalypse pandemic COVID-19 post-apocalypse novel Shelley Mary Atwood Margaret London Jack Mandel Emily St. John Matheson Richard King Stephen Dashner James Investigating the novels that deal with a pandemic apocalypse, this study highlights the dystopian elements preceding and following the end of the world. Inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic in the 21st century, it relates the fears of the pandemic to the literary history and political conditions nurturing that imagined end of the world in a number of post-apocalyptic novels. The novels are examined under three tropes: the early novels prophesying a 21st-century apocalypse; the postwar novels linking the plague to power conflicts; and the recent novels tackling biogenetic experimentation. The study pulls apart, with a limited depth, the parts played by the political and economic world systems in bringing about the pandemic apocalypse as well as the dystopian aftermaths. It concludes that although the novels lash a critique against capitalist recklessness, they ambivalently suspect the existence of a viable alternative. En examinant les romans qui évoquent une apocalypse pandémique, cette étude met en lumière les éléments dystopiques qui précèdent et suivent la fin du monde. Inspirée par la pandémie de COVID-19 au XXIe siècle, elle met en relation les craintes de la pandémie avec l'histoire littéraire et les conditions politiques qui nourrissent cette fin du monde imaginée dans un certain nombre de romans post-apocalyptiques. Les romans sont examinés sous trois angles : les plus anciens romans prophétisant une apocalypse au XXIe siècle, les romans d'après-guerre liant la peste aux conflits de pouvoir et les romans les plus récents abordant l'expérimentation biogénétique. L'étude examine, de manière restreinte, les rôles joués par les systèmes politiques et économiques mondiaux dans l'apocalypse pandémique ainsi que les séquelles dystopiques. Elle aboutit à la conclusion que, bien que les romans critiquent la folie capitaliste, ils doutent de de l'existence d'une alternative viable.
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topic	capitalisme dystopie apocalypse pandémie COVID-19 post-apocalypse roman Shelley Mary Atwood Margaret London Jack Mandel Emily St. John Matheson Richard King Stephen Dashner Jamesen capitalism dystopia apocalypse pandemic COVID-19 post-apocalypse novel Shelley Mary Atwood Margaret London Jack Mandel Emily St. John Matheson Richard King Stephen Dashner James
spellingShingle	capitalisme dystopie apocalypse pandémie COVID-19 post-apocalypse roman Shelley Mary Atwood Margaret London Jack Mandel Emily St. John Matheson Richard King Stephen Dashner Jamesen capitalism dystopia apocalypse pandemic COVID-19 post-apocalypse novel Shelley Mary Atwood Margaret London Jack Mandel Emily St. John Matheson Richard King Stephen Dashner James Al-Aghberi, Munir Ahmed Pandemic Apocalypse In Between Dystopias: Observations from Post-Apocalyptic Novels
description	Investigating the novels that deal with a pandemic apocalypse, this study highlights the dystopian elements preceding and following the end of the world. Inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic in the 21st century, it relates the fears of the pandemic to the literary history and political conditions nurturing that imagined end of the world in a number of post-apocalyptic novels. The novels are examined under three tropes: the early novels prophesying a 21st-century apocalypse; the postwar novels linking the plague to power conflicts; and the recent novels tackling biogenetic experimentation. The study pulls apart, with a limited depth, the parts played by the political and economic world systems in bringing about the pandemic apocalypse as well as the dystopian aftermaths. It concludes that although the novels lash a critique against capitalist recklessness, they ambivalently suspect the existence of a viable alternative.
author	Al-Aghberi, Munir Ahmed
author_facet	Al-Aghberi, Munir Ahmed
author_sort	Al-Aghberi, Munir Ahmed
title	Pandemic Apocalypse In Between Dystopias: Observations from Post-Apocalyptic Novels
title_short	Pandemic Apocalypse In Between Dystopias: Observations from Post-Apocalyptic Novels
title_full	Pandemic Apocalypse In Between Dystopias: Observations from Post-Apocalyptic Novels
title_fullStr	Pandemic Apocalypse In Between Dystopias: Observations from Post-Apocalyptic Novels
title_full_unstemmed	Pandemic Apocalypse In Between Dystopias: Observations from Post-Apocalyptic Novels
title_sort	pandemic apocalypse in between dystopias: observations from post-apocalyptic novels
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publishDate	2021
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Pandemic Apocalypse In Between Dystopias: Observations from Post-Apocalyptic Novels

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