Broken Mirrors

Joe Trotta is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Joe’s research has shifted from traditional linguistics to focusing nearly exclusively on the use of English in popular media. He is the founder and chair of the [GotPop] Research Group and the co-host of the GotPop Popular Culture Podcast.Dr. Zlatan Filipovic is Associate Professor in English and Comparative Literature at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London and has published extensively on deconstruction and affect in literary writing.Houman Sadri is a PhD candidate and teacher of English Literature, at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the co-host of the GotPop Popular Culture Podcast.

• Introduction: Welcome to the Beginning of the End of EverythingJoe Trotta and Houman SadriChapter 1: A Light that Never Goes Out: Bare Life and the Possibility of Ethics in McCarthy’s The RoadZlatan FilipovicChapter 2: Hopeful Dystopias? Figures of Hope in the Brazilian Science Fiction Series 3%Michael GodheChapter 3: Hopeful Hybridities: Transformative Interspecies Relationships in Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Visual NarrativesAriel KhanChapter 4: Dystopia and Utopia After Darwin: Using Evolution to Explain Edward Bulwer Lytton’s The Coming RaceEmelie JonssonChapter 5: Is this the Futu.re?: Russian Cosmism and the Construction of an Immor(t)al UtopiaIril Hove UllestadChapter 6: The Mexican Sicario Against the End of the WorldGabriela MercadoChapter 7: Post-apocalyptic Play: Representations of the End of the City in Video GamesEmma FraserChapter 8: The Future in Ruins: The Uses of Derelict Buildings and Monuments in Post-Apocalyptic Film and LiteratureJerry MäättäChapter 9: The Zombie as a Pronoun: What Pronouns are Used and Why?Linda Flores OhlsonChapter 10: What can a corpus tell us about Apocalyptic/Dystopian TextsJoe TrottaChapter 11: Original Sin as Salvation: The Apocalyptic Boon in Philip Pullman’s His Dark MaterialsHouman Sadri