Abstract
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this essay examines a variety of visions of apocalypse and civilizational collapse, asking how we can imagine a world without us (as in Alan Weisman's book of that title), or whether we will merely eke out a post-climate disaster existence like the one predicted in Ursula K. Le Guin's 1974 novel The Dispossessed.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 791-798 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | American Literature |
Volume | 92 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1 2020 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Literature and Literary Theory