Apocalyptic Ecology in the Graphic Novel: Life and the Environment After Societal Collapse 1476668566, 9781476668567

As awareness of climate change grows, so too increases the number of cultural depictions of environmental disasters. Sin

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Apocalyptic Ecology in the Graphic Novel: Life and the Environment After Societal Collapse
 1476668566, 9781476668567

Table of contents :
Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Whither Dystopia? Why Apocalypse?
2. ­Dysto-Apocalyptic Hope and the Imagination
3. Pathogenic Shaped Futures, Part I: Annihilation and The Walking Dead
4. Pathogenic Shaped Futures, Part II: Reduction and Y: The Last Man
5. ­Post-Human Life in a ­Post-Nuclear Age in Snowpiercer and Sweet Tooth
6. The Massive and Life on a Warming Planet
7. Environmental Theory in an Apocalyptic Age
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

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