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Post-apocalyptic Worlds

Post-Apocalyptic Worlds is a narrative construct in dystopian young adult fiction wherein the defining characteristic is a setting that emerges in the aftermath of a catastrophic event that has caused the collapse of human civilization, distinguishing it from other dystopian settings by its focus on survival, societal reconstruction, and the psychological and environmental remnants of global disaster.

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590

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19

Authors

6

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2017–2026

4

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Publications

21

“Maps of the World in Its Becoming”: Post-Apocalyptic Naming in Cormac McCarthy's<i>The Road</i>

Ashley Kunsa · Journal of Modern Literature · 2009 · 93 citations

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Post-apocalyptic culture: modernism, postmodernism, and the twentieth-century novel

Choice Reviews Online · 2009 · 46 citations

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The Great Change and the Great Book: Nnedi Okorafor's Postcolonial, Post-Apocalyptic Africa and the Promise of Black Speculative Fiction

Burnett · Research in African Literatures · 2015 · 41 citations

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“We’re Using Up the Earth. It’s Almost Gone”: A Return to the Post-Apocalyptic Future in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood

J. Brooks Bouson · The Journal of Commonwealth Literature · 2011 · 39 citations

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"Time to go": The Post-apocalyptic and The Post-traumatic in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake

Katherine V. Snyder · Studies in the novel · 2011 · 33 citations

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Authors

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  1. JB
    J. Brooks Bouson

    Loyola University Chicago, United States

    1 publications · 39 citations

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  2. RI
    R. I. G. Hughes

    Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 29 citations

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  3. KV
    Katherine V. Snyder

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    1 publications · 33 citations

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  4. AK
    Ashley Kunsa

    1 publications · 93 citations

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  5. GC
    Gerry Canavan

    Marquette University, United States

    1 publications · 27 citations

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Institutions

6

  1. Loyola University Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    39 citations

  2. North South University

    Dhaka, Bangladesh

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    41 citations

  3. York St John University

    York, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  4. Marquette University

    Milwaukee, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

  5. Universidade Federal Fluminense

    Niterói, Brazil

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  6. North Idaho College

    Coeur d'Alene, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  7. Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté

    Besançon, France

    1 publications

    20 citations

  8. Great Barrier Reef Foundation

    Brisbane, Australia

    1 publications

    20 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 3 publications · 102 citations

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  2. TOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies

    1 publications · 21 citations

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  3. Mythlore

    1 publications · 15 citations

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  4. Studies in the novel

    1 publications · 33 citations

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  5. Studies in the literary imagination

    SLI · 1 publications · 31 citations

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