Cheap Apocalypse

Date of Award

6-15-2024

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Organizational Unit

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, English and Literary Arts

First Advisor

Joanna Howard

Second Advisor

Chad Leahy

Third Advisor

Kristy Ulibarri

Fourth Advisor

Patrick Cottrell

Keywords

Speculative fiction, Climate change

Abstract

Cheap Apocalypse is a novel that explores how free-market capitalism has imperiled diverse ecologies and the future(s) of every living species in the pursuit of profit maximization. Narrated by a discarded television floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch––an enormous amalgamation of garbage which can be seen from space––this novel will expose human consumer culture alongside the experiences of animals, plants, and other entities (both sentient and not). By re-imagining the humanist binary which has long separated humans from the natural world, Cheap Apocalypse will provide attention to the animate and inanimate alike whose fates are at stake with environmental catastrophe. This approach will foreground multispecies perspectives and agencies across narrative points of view which disrupt conventional narratives of ecological collapse that center human life.

Copyright Date

6-2024

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

All Rights Reserved
All Rights Reserved.

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. Permanently suppressed.

Rights Holder

Samuel Rafael Barber

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

313 pgs

File Size

1.2 MB

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