THE POST-APOCALYPTIC PRESENT

[Dave Monroe]

"Nowhere is the trend towards literary post-apocalypse more visible
than with four recent visions of the end times: Edan Lepucki’s
California, Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, Laura van den
Berg’s Find Me, and Sandra Newman’s The Country of Ice Cream Star. Far
from depoliticized, these novels are in fact deeply political in their
turn to post-apocalyptic settings, using such settings to unwind
narratives of contemporary life that are paradoxically more real than
the ones realism can manage.
   "For this most recent wave of post-apocalyptic fiction, I would
argue, the defining events were the 2008 banking crisis and the
recession it engendered...."

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http://www.publicbooks.org//fiction/the-post-apocalyptic-present

Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics
Andrew Hoberek

http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/product/Considering-Watchmen,5273.aspx

Watchmen and Neoliberalism: An Interview with Andrew Hoberek

http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2015/01/watchmen-and-neoliberalism-an-interview-
with-andrew-hobarek/

Watchmen up Close: An Interview with Andrew Hoberek

http://sequart.org/magazine/58370/andrew-hoberek-interview-watchmen/
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