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Australia has been a frequent choice of location for narratives about the end of the world in science fiction and speculative works, ranging from pre-colonial apocalyptic maps to key literary works from the last fifty years. This critical work explores the role of Australia in both apocalyptic literature and film. Works and genres covered include Nevil Shute's popular novel On the Beach, Mad Max, children's literature, Indigenous writing, and cyberpunk. The text examines ways in which apocalypse is used to undermine complacency, foretell environmental disasters, critique colonization, and to serve as a means of protest for minority groups. Australian apocalypse imagines Australia at the ends of the world, geographically and psychologically, but also proposes spaces of hope for the future.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. An Apocalyptic Map: New Worlds and the Colonization of Australia
2. The Shield of Distance: Apocalypse in Australian
Literature After 1945
3. An Apocalyptic Landscape: The Mad Max Films
4. Children of the Apocalypse: Australian Children's Literature
5. (Re)Writing the End of the World: Apocalypse, Race, and Indigenous Literature
6. The End of the Human: Apocalypse, Cyberpunk, and the Parrish Plessis Novels
Conclusion
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
