Une pandémie d'origine inconnue a décimé la population nord-américaine (et sans doute celle de toute la planète).Ish, qui a survécu au mal mystérieux, entame une traversée de l'Amérique qui va ancrer en lui la conscience que rien ne pourra plus être comme avant. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Understanding US culture through the post-apocalyptic novel. Jemisin's The Fifth Season, Remainders of the American Century describes the tension between a reactionary impulse and the progressive impetus for a new world.

Theorist Brent Ryan Bellamy illuminates the political unconscious of post-apocalyptic writing, drawing on a range of disciplinary fields, including science fiction studies, American studies, energy humanities research, and critical race theory. Since 1945 the portentous fate of the United States has shifted from the irradiated future of nuclear holocaust to the saltwater wash of global warming. The shape of the future they imagine is defined by 'the remainder,' when what is left behind expresses itself in storytelling tropes. Post-apocalyptic novels imagine human responses to the aftermath of catastrophe. Understanding US culture through the post-apocalyptic novel This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to the present as reflections of a growing anxiety about the decline of US hegemony. But this at least we have done, and when we shall no longer do it, then we shall no longer be men.Paperback. Then we go about our life as before, and soon we forget, like the beasts. Or else we give him to the bright and hot cleanliness of fire. Then, if the black birds come streaming from far to pluck at him, that too is right, for they are the creatures of the air.

Or else we lay him to rest among the tree-branches, and give him to the air. So he shall return to the earth, whence all things came. No, but rather we lay him where the ground is hollowed out a little and there cover him with leaves and branches. We do not cast him into the river carelessly for the stream to float him away. And we do not take him by the legs carelessly, and drag him into the forest for the foxes and woodrats to gnaw on. So, when the comrade lies there, we do not let him lie where he died. Now we stand upright, and now also we think of the dead. Once it was not so, and when one of us died, he lay where he lay by the cave-mouth and we ran in and out there, not standing quite upright as we ran.

“In this also we are men, that we think of the dead.

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart