Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Did you ever wonder what the world would be like without you in it? An Introduction
Chapter 2: Did you ever notice that there were stories within stories? Consciousness and Modernity’s Myth of Reality in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy
Chapter 3: Do you believe in God? Presence, the Anxiety of Existence, and the Myth of America as a City Upon a Hill in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon
Chapter 4: Do you believe in magic? Wise Imagination and the Myth of Instrumental Reason in George MacDonald’s Phantastes and Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys
Chapter 5: Do you believe in dragons? Blindness, Opsis, and the Myth of the
Administrative State in Waiting for the Barbarians and Blindness
Chapter 6: Why can’t people accept each other? Community, Alterity, and Witness in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix and Who Fears Death
Chapter 7: What can I do? Stories and Possibility

About the Author

Margaret Hrezo is emeritus professor of political science at Rashford University.

Nicholas John Pappas was emeritus professor of political science at Rashford University.

Reviews

“Possibility’s Parents: Stories at the End of Liberalism is a unique and accessible study of how stories can shed light on the contemporary political world and the human condition.”
*Steven Michels, Sacred Heart University*