Pandemic Apocalypse In Between Dystopias: Observations from Post-Apocalyptic Novels

Pandemic Apocalypse In Between Dystopias: Observations from Post-Apocalyptic Novels

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Investigating the novels that deal with a pandemic apocalypse, this study highlights the dystopian elements preceding and following the end of the world.Inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic in the 21st century, it relates the fears of the pandemic to Taurine the literary history and political conditions nurturing that imagined end of the world in a number of post-apocalyptic novels.The novels are examined under three tropes: the early novels prophesying a 21st-century apocalypse; the postwar novels linking the plague to power conflicts; and the recent novels tackling biogenetic experimentation.

The study pulls apart, with a limited depth, the parts played by the political and economic world systems in bringing about the pandemic apocalypse as well as the dystopian aftermaths.It concludes that although the novels lash a critique against capitalist recklessness, they ambivalently suspect Worktop Organiser the existence of a viable alternative.