Remembering in postapocalyptic world: Anticipatory memory in postapocalyptic series about pandemic

This thesis aims to explore the relationship between future, present and past in the context of memory creation in post-apocalyptic media content. Using the concept of anticipatory memory, the aim is to discover how characters from distant post-apocalyptic future marked by a catastrophic pandemic remember the time before the pandemic, meaning their past and our present. More specifically, this work will focus on concepts of memory and remembering and clarify key theories about memory that include collective and cultural memory, nostalgia or trauma. Next, I will describe temporal deviations in the narrative structure, anachronies of analepsis and prolepsis, and their use in fictional creation, and I will define the concept of anticipatory memory. Finally, I will characterize the genre of post-apocalyptic fiction, its narrative scheme and ways of depicting memory. I will also focus on characteristic motifs of post-apocalyptic fiction, which include, for example, the fight to live, changes in social structures, or the existence of remains of the old world in a post-apocalyptic world. The practical part is dedicated to qualitative research that uses elements of narrative and discursive analysis in the analysis of anticipatory memory in the post-apocalyptic series Station 11, Sweet Tooth and 12 Monkeys