Appositions: The Future in Solarpunk and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Więckowska, Katarzyna

dc.contributor.author	Więckowska, Katarzyna
dc.date.accessioned	2022-11-28T07:49:26Z
dc.date.available	2022-11-28T07:49:26Z
dc.date.issued	2022-11-24
dc.identifier.issn	2083-2931
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/44375
dc.description.abstract	The essay discusses images of the future in solarpunk and post-apocalyptic fiction, focusing on their distinct approach to the narratives of progress, science, and individualism. The dystopian perspective of post-apocalyptic fiction is juxtaposed with the hopeful stance of solarpunk stories in order to outline the attempts to move beyond environmental pessimism and to imagine a liveable future. A reading of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes’s The Collapse of Western Civilization (2014), and Omar El Akkad’s American War (2017) provides an overview of early 21st-century dystopian motifs and visions, while the ideas and development of solarpunk fiction are discussed on the basis of three anthologies of short stories: Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Ecospeculation (2017), Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (2018), and Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures (2021). The aim of the essay is to argue that apocalyptic and solarpunk fiction stand in a relationship of apposition to one another, representing dominant and emergent structures of feeling.	en
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	pl
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture;12	en
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subject	solarpunk	en
dc.subject	post-apocalyptic fiction	en
dc.subject	future	en
dc.subject	dystopia	en
dc.subject	Anthropocene	en
dc.title	Appositions: The Future in Solarpunk and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction	en
dc.type	Article
dc.page.number	345-359
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2084-574X
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	katarzyna.wieckowska@umk.pl
dc.identifier.doi	10.18778/2083-2931.12.21

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