The Mechanism of Survival in Post-Apocalyptic Pandemic Narratives: A Comparative Study
Zena Dhia Mohammed,
Sabrina Abdulkadhom Abdulridha
Abstract:Post-Apocalyptic Fiction is a subgenre of science fiction in which a global crisis takes its toll on the human population, leaving only a few with the luck of surviving the scene. However, survival slowly develops into a determining power as the remaining people try to reconstruct a new civilization with the use of different strategies and mechanisms of survival. This study is then based on post-apocalyptic texts, particularly ones that are concerned with pandemics, and carefully examines and compares two grou… Show more
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