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Remainders of the American Century Remainders of the American Century Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline Brent ryan Bell amy Wesleyan University Press Middletown, Connecticut Wesleyan University Press Middletown CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress © 2021 Brent Ryan Bellamy All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Richard Hendel Typeset in Miller and Klavika by Integrated Publishing Solutions Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bellamy, Brent Ryan, author. Title: Remainders of the American century : post-apocalyptic novels in the age of US decline / Brent Ryan Bellamy. Description: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A literary study of mainstream and science fiction novels shows the contest between the reactionary impulse of the post-apocalyptic mode and the progressive impetus for a new world”— Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2021000704 (print) | LCCN 2021000705 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819580313 (cloth) | ISBN 9780819580320 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780819580337 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: American fiction—20th century—History and criticism. | American fiction—21st century—History and criticism. | Science fiction, American—History and criticism. | Dystopias in literature. | Apocalypse in literature. Classification: LCC PS374.D96 B45 2021 (print) | LCC PS374.D96 (ebook) | DDC 813/.509372—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021000704 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021000705 5 4 3 2 1 Cover Illustration: Clyfford Still, PHX-44. Courtesy Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO © City and County of Denver / ARS, NY. Dedicated to family, immediate, extended, and found; and to Alex and George, partners in thought and deed The study of post-apocalypse is a study of what disappears and what remains, and of how the remainder has been transformed. —JameS Berger, After the End Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline 1 Part one the Post-aPocalyPtic Mode 1 Post-Apocalypse Tropes 31 2 Reduced Futures 52 3 Remaindered Books 74 Part two the contested Politics of Us decline 4 Old and New Americas 103 5 Segregated Futures 130 6 The Reproductive Imperative 154 7 Automobility Regression 172 Conclusion: Remainders of the American Century 201 Notes 209 Bibliography 241 Index 263
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