TY - JOUR
T1 - Giving up
AU - Bérubé, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by Duke University Press
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1215/00029831-8781007
DO - 10.1215/00029831-8781007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099084231
VL - 92
SP - 791
EP - 798
JO - American literature; a journal of literary history, criticism and bibliography
JF - American literature; a journal of literary history, criticism and bibliography
SN - 0002-9831
IS - 4
ER -