Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film

Roslyn Weaver has a PhD in literature from the University of Wollongong and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in medical humanities at Western Sydney University. Her research interests include apocalypse, popular culture, children’s literature, and speculative fiction.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface      Introduction      1. An Apocalyptic Map: New Worlds and the Colonization of Australia      2. The Shield of Distance: Apocalypse in AustralianLiterature 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