02031nam 2200433 450 991078040530332120230424100918.09780819580337(electronic bk.)9780819580320(MiAaPQ)EBC30331568(Au-PeEL)EBL30331568(OCoLC)1237650670(EXLCZ)992628544530004120230424d2021 uy 1engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRemainders of the American century post-apocalyptic novels in the age of US decline /Brent Ryan Bellamy1st ed.Middletown, Connecticut :Wesleyan University Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (289 pages)Print version: Bellamy, Brent Ryan Remainders of the American Century Middletown, CT. 06459 : Wesleyan University Press,c2021 9780819580320 Includes bibliographical references and index.Theorist Brent Ryan Bellamy illuminates the political unconscious of the American post-apocalyptic novel, exploring over 35 works to show how this subgenre expresses a growing anxiety about the decline of US hegemony. The shape of the future is defined by "the remainder:" what is left after the imagined catastrophe. Bellamy draws on a range of disciplinary fields including science fiction studies, American studies, energy humanities research, and critical race theory, to describe how this literary mode accommodates both a reactionary impulse and a progressive impetus for a new world.American fictionApocalypse in literatureAmerican fiction.Apocalypse in literature.813.509372Bellamy Brent Ryan1565461MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910780405303321Remainders of the American century3835179UNINA