Giving up

Michael Bérubé

doi:10.1215/00029831-8781007

Giving up

Michael Bérubé

English

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	791-798
Number of pages	8
Journal	American Literature
Volume	92
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8781007
State	Published - Dec 1 2020

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Literature and Literary Theory

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