@article{Więckowska_2022, title={Appositions: The Future in Solarpunk and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction}, url={https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/15532}, DOI={10.18778/2083-2931.12.21}, abstractNote={<p>The essay discusses images of the future in solarpunk and post-apocalyptic fiction, focusing on their distinct approach to the narratives of progress, science, and individualism. The dystopian perspective of post-apocalyptic fiction is juxtaposed with the hopeful stance of solarpunk stories in order to outline the attempts to move beyond environmental pessimism and to imagine a liveable future. A reading of Cormac McCarthy’s <em>The Road</em> (2006), Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes’s <em>The Collapse of Western Civilization</em> (2014), and Omar El Akkad’s <em>American War</em> (2017) provides an overview of early 21<sup>st</sup>-century dystopian motifs and visions, while the ideas and development of solarpunk fiction are discussed on the basis of three anthologies of short stories: <em>Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Ecospeculation</em> (2017), <em>Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers</em> (2018), and <em>Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures</em> (2021). The aim of the essay is to argue that apocalyptic and solarpunk fiction stand in a relationship of apposition to one another, representing dominant and emergent structures of feeling.</p>}, number={12}, journal={Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture}, author={Więckowska, Katarzyna}, year={2022}, month={Nov.}, pages={345–359} }