Nuclear Tests and Crying Land in Rollan Seysenbayev’s 'The Day When the World Collapsed'

• In Event: Representation of Nuclear Threats and Disasters in Literature, Film, Music, and Video Games

Abstract

This paper is looking at how Rollan Seisenbayev, in his short story “The Day When the World Collapsed,” creates an empathetic ecocritical narration that unites the animate world in the wake of the imminent nuclear threat. The paper examines how through anthropomorphization of the earth, Seisenbayev attributes more agency to it and challenges human intervention in the natural world.

Author

• Assel Uvaliyeva, U of Southern California