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Facing the disaster: Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction |
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Authors: |
Natsina, Anastasia |
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Abstract: |
The chapter discusses visions of the end of the world, a theme familiar since the end of the nineteenth century. A short story by Nikolaos Episkopopoulos from this period, "Mother Earth", raises several of the issues of contemporary apocalyptic literature. The chapter discusses also Margarita Karapanou's “Sleepwalker” from the late twentieth century and, from the early twenty-first, short stories from the collection “The Island on the Fish” by Elsa Korneti and the diptych “Black Water” and “The Sea” by Michael Makropoulos. All these texts attribute the disaster to human culpability - to fierce competition and boundless growth, individualism, greed, and cruelty. As an antidote, they propose openness, contact and union with other people and the non-human environment.
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Linguistic Editors: |
Kotzampasi, Maria |
Graphic Editors: |
Papadatou, Chara |
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Chapter |
Creation Date: | 09-12-2023 |
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License: |
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/11794 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Natsina, A. (2023). Facing the disaster: Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction [Chapter]. In Natsina, A. 2023. Nature: far away, so close [Monograph]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/11794 |
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Greek |
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Nature: far away, so close |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |