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This chapter explores apocalypse in children's literature with reference to literary attitudes to children, nature and dystopia. Examinations of works by Lee Harding, Victor Kelleher, and John Marsden then focus on how these writers adapt apocalyptic themes for a juvenile audience. Their novels display tyranny, large-scale catastrophe, invasion, and children in danger, and their apocalyptic settings reveal anxieties about isolation, invasion, Indigenous land rights and colonization. (108)
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Epigraph: For some years now the city had been tossing up this small tide of human flotsam, wide-eyed youngsters who roamed the hills for a while, sick with fever, some doomed to die...their numbers were perilously small.
-Lee Harding, Waiting for the End of the World 31-32
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Children of the Apocalypse
Subjects:
- Keep Calm 1978 single work novel
- Stolen : A Letter to My Captor 2009 single work novel
- Picnic at Hanging Rock 1967 single work novel
- Displaced Fictions : Contemporary Australian Books for Teenagers and Young Adults 1999 single work criticism
- Earthborn Wars Trilogy 2003 series - author novel
- Space Demons Trilogy 1986 series - author
- Skymaze 1989 single work children's fiction
- Heaven and Earth Trilogy 2000-2003 series - author novel
- Beyond the Labyrinth 1988 single work novel
- The Web of Time 1979 single work novel
- The Eye Witness 1991 single work novel
- Quest Beyond Time 1985 single work novel
- The Girl from Tomorrow Part II : Tomorrow's End 1993 series - publisher film/TV
- Scatterlings 1991 single work novel
- The Obernewtyn Chronicles 1987 series - author novel
- The Lake at the End of the World 1988 single work novel
- The Makers 1987 single work novel
- Parkland Trilogy 1994 series - author novel
- Tomorrow Series 1993 series - author novel
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