Apocalypse and After: Fictional Representations
Rajesh Kumar
- Pages
- pp. 67-72
- Published
- July 1, 2011
Rajesh Kumar (2011). Apocalypse and After: Fictional Representations. Labyrinth, 2(3), 67-72.
Abstract
Post-apocalyptic fiction presents different models after civilization tries to rebuild itself from ground zero. There are chiefly two protos – a savage after world or an idyllic Utopia through the rudiments of technologies and cultural vestiges. The memory of mass destruction of human population is manifest in the various legends, folklore and myths throughout the world. The widespread presence of these stories also in tribal cultures proves that such an event must have taken place in pre- history. There are also geological evidences unearthed by scientists to establish the veracity of the event. The present Post-apocalyptic fiction draws from these sources and examines the spatial and temporal propensities of man, nature and technology in the future world vis-à-vis one another. Authors have taken up these relationships in their fictional accounts and projected the possibilities of life after the cataclysmic happening
Keywords:Post-apocalypticnaturetechnologyanthropocentricneoteric context


