After the Apocalypse may be read as a reflection on manufactured memory. Whether related to family, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, or nation, the past is a human construct. It is not fixed but malleable, not permanent but subject to perpetual reexamination and revision. The value of history correlates with purposefulness. Changing times render obsolete the past that we know and require the discovery of a “new” history better suited to the needs of the moment.
