Thinning the Crowds: Lifestyle Monitoring and Man-made Apocalypse in F. H. Batacan’s “Keeping Time”

This paper aims to examine the main novum of Philippine author F. H. Batacan’s science fiction short story “Keeping Time” in the light of apocalypse and how, as a mirror to the real world, it showcases the use of lifestyle as a way of managing populations. The article uses Frank Kermode’s ideas of a...

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Main Author: Roy Tristan Agustin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2020-03-01
Series:Caliban: French Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/7498
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