Transatlantic Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: Frank Owen’s South (2016) and North (2018) and Lauren Beukes’s Afterland (2020)

This article compares fictional representations of post-catastrophe worlds in dystopian novels by South African authors Frank Owen and Lauren Beukes, who have chosen to set their fictional representations of a bleak future in the United States of America. The article interrogates this choice and, mo...

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Yayımlandı:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces,
Yazar: Joseph-Vilain, Mélanie
Materyal Türü: Article ou chapitre numérique
Dil:Anglais
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2021
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Online Erişim:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Özet:This article compares fictional representations of post-catastrophe worlds in dystopian novels by South African authors Frank Owen and Lauren Beukes, who have chosen to set their fictional representations of a bleak future in the United States of America. The article interrogates this choice and, more generally, the way in which South, North and Afterland articulate the global and the local in their imagined dystopias.