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In the End : = Apocalyptic Literature, Minoritarian Identity, and Hopeless Futurity.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	In the End :/
Reminder of title:	Apocalyptic Literature, Minoritarian Identity, and Hopeless Futurity.
Author:	Tanner, Dwight.
Description:	1 online resource (268 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-01A.
Subject:	Modern literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27957956click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798641288635

In the End : = Apocalyptic Literature, Minoritarian Identity, and Hopeless Futurity.
Tanner, Dwight.

In the End :Apocalyptic Literature, Minoritarian Identity, and Hopeless Futurity. - 1 online resource (268 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation argues that the genre of apocalyptic narratives can be uniquely read as interrogating the paradoxes and potential for social criticism and change in the face of various social issues, including racial inequalities and climate change. I primarily examine North American apocalyptic literature written or published in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, with a particular focus on ethnic or minoritarian depictions, to consider the unexpected ways that apocalyptic literature attempts to imagine and effectuate radically new futures. Relying on a longer history of the genre coupled with twenty-first century cultural studies about apocalyptic conceptions, I argue that apocalypse is often misread in two different but equally limiting ways. In the first, apocalypse is positioned as nihilism or defeatism, overlooking the strange hopefulness and engagement with futurity inherent in most apocalyptic narratives. In the second, which is most closely aligned to early apocalyptic stories such as the Book of Revelations, apocalypse is falsely viewed as a transformative reset, wherein sought-after change inherently comes to pass through the destructive event-a formulation that runs the risk of fostering passivity and inaction.Seeking constructive examples of proactive futurity, I argue for the primacy of minoritarian experiences and perspectives for devising counterstrategies, demonstrating how the heightened awareness that comes from histories of marginalization and oppression fosters an efficacious means of imagining and creating altered futures. I first explore how some apocalyptic narratives, such as Cormac McCarthy's The Road, evade meaningful change by embracing a normative, detached futurity that merely replicates the oppressions, inequalities, and destructive human behaviors of the present and past. In later chapters, critical race theory, third-world feminism, afrofuturism, and afro-pessimism inform my claim that explorations of futurity from the perspectives of minoritarian identities provide a viable blueprint for achieving more productively different futures. Engaging with the works of Octavia Butler and Colson Whitehead, among others, I demonstrate how reading minoritarian futurity in apocalyptic stories reveals the limitations of optimistic narratives in favor of generative hopelessness-acknowledging the failure of what has been tried thus far and radically expanding notions of what can be done differently.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798641288635Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122750
Modern literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

AnthropoceneIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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