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Bakker, Barbara. "Egyptian Dystopias of the 21st Century." Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 21 (October 23, 2021): 79–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/jais.9151.

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During the first two decades of the 21st century an increasing amount of narratives termed as Arabic dystopian fiction appeared on the Arabic literary scene, with a greater part authored by Egyptian writers. However, what characterises/marks a work as a dystopia? This paper investigates the dystopian nature of a selection of Egyptian literary works within the frame of the dystopian narrative tradition. The article begins by introducing the features of the traditional literary dystopias as they will be used in the analysis. It then gives a brief overview of the development of the genre in the Arabic literature. The discussion that follows highlights common elements and identifies specific themes in six Egyptian novels selected for the analysis, thereby highlighting differences and similarities between them and the traditional Western dystopias. The article calls for a categorisation of Arabic dystopian narrative that takes into consideration social, political, historical and cultural factors specific for the Arabic in general, and Egyptian in particular, literary field. Keywords: Arabic literature, dystopia, dystopian literature, contemporary literature, Egypt, fiction, speculative fiction.
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Muradian, Gaiane, and Anna Karapetyan. "On Some Properties of Science Fiction Dystopian Narrative." Armenian Folia Anglistika 13, no. 1-2 (17) (October 16, 2017): 7–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2017.13.1-2.007.

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Dystopia is a narrative form of fiction in general and of science fiction in particular. Using elements of science fiction discourse like time travel, space flight, advanced technologies, virtual reality, genetic engineering, etc. – dystopian narrative depicts future fictive societies presenting in peculiar prose style a future in which humanity has fallen into destruction, ruin and decline, in which human life and nature are wildly abused, exploited and destroyed, in which a totalitarian, highly centralized, and, therefore, oppressive social organization sacrifices individual expression, freedom of choice and idiosyncrasy of the society and its members. It is such critical and creative reflections of science fiction dystopian narrative that are focused on in the present case study with the aim of bringing out certain properties in terms of narrative types and devices, figurative discourse and cognitive notions through which science fiction dystopia expresses and conveys its overarching message, i.e. the warning to stop before it is too late to the reader.
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Song, Mingwei. "A Topology of Hope: Utopia, Dystopia, and Heterotopia in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction." AUC PHILOLOGICA 2021, no. 3 (February 15, 2022): 107–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2022.6.

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This essay investigates how utopian thinking met with dystopian variations in contemporary Chinese science fiction. The dystopian gaze into the utopian dreams, the alternative histories contending with the utopian narratives, and the heterotopian experiments challenging ideological orthodoxy are the focus of my analysis. Reading the dystopian fiction by Chan Koonchung and science fiction stories and novels by Han Song, Bao Shu and Hao Jingfang etc., I do not intend to illustrate the utopian/ dystopian interventions in the political sense, but rather to explore the vigorous, multifaceted variations of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia that these authors have created as discursive constructs to suggest alternatives to the utopia/dystopian dualism. Contemporary science fiction authors write back to the usual literary practice taking words as reflections of the world. To these writers, words are worlds.
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Saund, Gurpreet S., and Kulandai Samy. "Eco-critical dystopia and anthropocentrism in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake." Scientific Temper 14, no. 03 (September 27, 2023): 741–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.58414/scientifictemper.2023.14.3.26.

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Geopolitical anxieties entangled and emerged with the anthropocene, creating a collective imaginary of critical eco-dystopia in a fictive way. The imaginings of apocalypse evade the entire human civilization with its natural habitat, deluging the corpses to be laid onto the death-stricken bed of the world. Drawings on sight provide an anthropocentrism-critical approach toward the textual interpretation in general. This research article decontextualizes critical dystopian fiction and predicts the reality of biotechnology advances in Oryx and Crake. It expands on the eco-critical dystopian world to the point that it defines its long-term viability through compelling human insights that exemplify destructive acts. For instance, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, species splicing, and genetic engineering deploy the critical dystopic vision and transform the planet into a dilapidated globe, which becomes an untowelled world
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Adil Majidova, Ilaha. "The dystopian genre as one of Ray Bradbury’s creative trends." SCIENTIFIC WORK 61, no. 12 (December 25, 2020): 87–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.36719/2663-4619/61/87-90.

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Utopia is a common literary theme, especially in a speculative and science-fiction genre. Authors use utopian genre to explore what a perfect society would look like. Utopian fiction is set in a perfect world, while a dystopian novel drops its main character into a world where everything seems to have gone wrong. Dystopian fiction can challenge readers to think differently about current world. The article is devoted to the etymology of dystopia genre within Ray Bradbury’s creativity. In his short stories he tried to show the depth of his imagination. In Ray Bradbury’s fiction the world is a terrible place. He exposes the destructive side of technological progress and paradoxes of human personality in a grotty society. Key words: science-fiction, utopia, dystopia, prognosis, short story
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Altaf, Sana, and Aqib Javid Parry. "Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber: Blending technology and fantasy in a dystopian narrative." Technoetic Arts 22, no. 1 (April 1, 2024): 133–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/tear_00126_1.

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In the contemporary postmodern era, the boundaries that once rigidly separated well-established genres have become more fluid, resulting in what scholars Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan call ‘genre-blurring’. This phenomenon of incorporating elements from diverse genres represents a challenge to dominant ideologies and expands the possibilities within fictional texts. The dystopian fiction written by feminist writers towards the end of the twentieth century and beyond significantly exemplifies this form of hybrid textuality. In doing so, these writers seek to renovate the dystopian genre by making it both formally and politically oppositional. This article aims to explore Midnight Robber (2000), a feminist dystopian novel by Nalo Hopkinson, a Jamaican–Canadian writer, to illustrate how the author manipulates the generic boundaries of science fiction, fantasy and mythology. By amalgamating Afro-Caribbean religious and cultural beliefs, mythical creatures and traditional knowledge systems with a technologically advanced future world, Hopkinson challenges the essentially White, Eurocentric model of dystopian fiction. The article will also examine how, as an Afrofuturist writer, Hopkinson attempts to challenge and subvert the patriarchal discourse of dystopian fiction, traditionally dominated by White male writers, through a strong Black female character, Tan-Tan, who seeks to resist the patriarchal structures governing her, and finally succeeds in emerging as a female leader figure. For this purpose, Barbara Creed’s insights into the monstrous-feminine are explored, introducing novelty into the discourse of feminist dystopia.
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Amelina, Anna V. "Theoretical Aspect of Studying the Literary Utopias and Dystopias of the First Decades of the 20th Century (on the Genre Identification Problem)." Izvestia of the Ural federal university. Series 2. Humanities and Arts 25, no. 4 (2023): 77–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/izv2.2023.25.4.061.

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This article examines the theoretical problems of studying literary utopias and dystopias. Since utopia and dystopia exist far beyond fiction, it is proposed to approach the analysis of a literary work as a particular case of the manifestation of a universal model of utopian/dystopian consciousness. First, in the texts under consideration, their elements should be identified with the support of research in social philosophy — the structure of utopian consciousness is outlined in the article, and the structure of dystopian consciousness is derived by the author of the article by analogy. If a work shows signs of utopian or dystopian consciousness, the next step in working with the text is to compare its genre features with the established genre invariant developed by literary critics. The article also presents the corresponding conditionally universal genre models of utopia and dystopia. This approach allows, firstly, to reasonably attribute the work to utopias and dystopias in the presence of signs of utopian or dystopian consciousness, secondly, to expand the body of texts that can be considered utopias or dystopias, and, finally, to fix individual genre features and correlate them with the corresponding invariant. During the formation of the genre of literary dystopia, i.e. in the first decades of the twentieth century, when the diversity of genre features in national literatures was extensive, this algorithm helps to fully trace the formation of the national invariant of the genre and establish its national specifics. At the same time, destroyed by the twentieth century, the genre of “classical utopia” is reborn and significantly modified under the influence of the novel form, so the identification of literary utopia becomes difficult — in this situation, the combination of philosophical and literary methods considered in the article also seems productive.
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Farahbakhsh, Alireza, and Soulmaz Kakaee. "A DYSTOPIAN READING OF THE PRESENT TIME IN DAVID MITCHELL'S NUMBER 9 DREAM." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 6, no. 12 (December 31, 2018): 12–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v6.i12.2018.1070.

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With the intention to study the implications and their affinity with and deviation from reality, the present study will analyze Number9Dream (2001) in terms of its narrative style, ontological qualities, and certain conventions which lead to the particular genre of dystopian science fiction. It tends to settle the following questions: are the implications and contributions of categorizing Number9Dream as a dystopian science fiction significant in any way? What is the role and ontological significance of setting in the novel? Narratological approach and genre criticism are applied to the novel to analyze it from the perspective of its critical engagement with dystopia. It traces science fictional elements and then continues to examine their utopian or dystopian nature and the different functions of those elements. It also refers to the connection between the given ontologies and reality. The present article shows that the novel provides a range of multiple possible worlds through two layers of internal and external ontology which are the representations of the real world. Dystopian narrative and science fiction conventions are exploited to address today's world issues. Through a detached view toward the present societies, Mitchell gives the opportunity to criticize what is not otherwise visible. The novel warns about human's isolation, alienation, and dehumanization and calls people to action accordingly. It briefly refers to the reconciliation of past/ present and nature/ science as a solution.
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Siham Hattab Hamdan, Dr. "kamaugawar and the creation of a dystopian reality: A study in hassan Blasim's "Crossword" and Ambrose Bierce's "Chi." لارك 3, no. 42 (June 30, 2021): 1206–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.31185/lark.vol3.iss42.1947.

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The study shows how war can create a dystopian reality worse than the reality depicted in the dystopian stories. War creates a circular or enclosed world that has no exit where people cannot see the end of the tunnel. The study discusses two short stories, one is for the Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim entitled "Crosswords" and the other for the American writer Ambrose Bierce entitled "Chickamauga". These two short stories fit one of the categories of dystopian fiction where the society witnesses the effects of war and civilians and soldiers become the victims. Though the two stories do not adhere to the futuristic perspective of dystopian fiction, they could express the thought of their writers' that what is going on in the society though it is real but it is at the same time, dystopian. Key Words: Dystopia, War, Defamiliarization, Hassan Blasim, Ambrose Bierce.
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Jones, Calvert W., and Celia Paris. "It’s the End of the World and They Know It: How Dystopian Fiction Shapes Political Attitudes." Perspectives on Politics 16, no. 4 (November 23, 2018): 969–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592718002153.

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Given that the fictional narratives found in novels, movies, and television shows enjoy wide public consumption, memorably convey information, minimize counter-arguing, and often emphasize politically-relevant themes, we argue that greater scholarly attention must be paid to theorizing and measuring how fiction affects political attitudes. We argue for a genre-based approach for studying fiction effects, and apply it to the popular dystopian genre. Results across three experiments are striking: we find consistent evidence that dystopian narratives enhance the willingness to justify radical—especially violent—forms of political action. Yet we find no evidence for the conventional wisdom that they reduce political trust and efficacy, illustrating that fiction’s effects may not be what they seem and underscoring the need for political scientists to take fiction seriously.
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Hensley, Martin. "The Green World of Dystopian Fiction." TopSCHOLAR®, 2006. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/276.

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Northrop Frye was the first theorist to develop the green world archetype; Frye used the term to refer to a recurring motif in Shakespearean comedy. In several of Shakespeare's comedies, the protagonists leave the civilized world and venture into the green world, or nature, to escape from the irrational law of society, which is the case in such comedies as As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Elements of the green world can also be found in Shakespearean tragedy, where the natural retreat serves as a temporary escape for the protagonists. Such a green world exists in three of the most well known examples of dystopian fiction: George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. In these three novels, the protagonists take flight from the repressive dystopia and journey into nature. In the green world, the protagonists attain individual freedom and identity and experience emotions, passions, beauty, the past, and the power of language. Each of these elements, which are associated with the green world, stand in opposition to the dystopian society's doctrine. The green world, then, becomes an escape, a place where the protagonists can temporarily live a free life away from the tyrannical powers of the dystopic society. The dystopian green world experience follows a pattern of flight, immersion, and departure. In the first segment, the protagonists flee from the oppressive society and into nature; in the second, they immerse themselves within the green world where they experience new sensations, emotions, and gain new insights and understanding; in the third, the protagonists depart the green world and return to the civilized world in order to confront it with the knowledge they have gained while immersed in the green world. This pattern can also be viewed as a symbolic cycle that moves from death to rebirth to death. The first death is the death-like stasis of the dystopia and of the protagonist, who is just a part of the whole and not truly an individual. The symbolic rebirth conies when the protagonists depart the green world as individuals with new know ledge and experiences. Lastly, the second symbolic, or sometimes literal death, comes when the protagonists confront the dystopia with their new knowledge, have that knowledge challenged by an agent of the dystopia, usually in the form of a trial, and, finally, are symbolically or literally destroyed by the dystopian agent.
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Moore, Belinda S. "Young adult dystopian fiction in the postnatural age." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101535/1/Belinda_Moore_Thesis.pdf.

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This creative works thesis comprises an exegesis and a novel. Both explore the ways that a postnatural perspective can shape the reading and writing of young adult dystopian fiction. Approaching literature from a postnatural perspective can highlight a connection between shifts in a novel's key terms and the development of the protagonist towards understanding their world as an interconnected ecosystem. Through its grounding in ecocriticism and children's literature criticism, this research investigates the contributions a postnatural perspective offers young adult dystopian fiction generally, and specifically, in the development of the novel When the Cloud Hit the Kellys.
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Welstead, Adam. "Dystopia and the divided kingdom : twenty-first century British dystopian fiction and the politics of dissensus." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17104.

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This doctoral thesis examines the ways in which contemporary writers have adopted the critical dystopian mode in order to radically deconstruct the socio-political conditions that preclude equality, inclusion and collective political appearance in twenty-first century Britain. The thesis performs theoretically-informed close readings of contemporary novels from authors J.G. Ballard, Maggie Gee, Sarah Hall and Rupert Thomson in its analysis, and argues that the speculative visions of Kingdom Come (2006), The Flood (2004), The Carhullan Army (2007) and Divided Kingdom (2005) are engaged with a wave of contemporary dystopian writing in which the destructive and divisive forms of consensus that are to be found within Britain's contemporary socio-political moment are identified and challenged. The thesis proposes that, in their politically-engaged extrapolations, contemporary British writers are engaged with specifically dystopian expressions of dissensus. Reflecting key theoretical and political nuances found in Jacques Rancière's concept of 'dissensus', I argue that the novels illustrate dissensual interventions within the imagined political space of British societies in which inequalities, oppressions and exclusions are endemic - often proceeding to present modest, 'minor' utopian arguments for more equal, heterogeneous and democratic possibilities in the process. Contributing new, theoretically-inflected analysis of key speculative fictions from twenty-first century British writers, and locating their critiques within the literary, socio-political and theoretical contexts they are meaningfully engaged with, the thesis ultimately argues that in interrogating and reimagining the socio-political spaces of twenty-first century Britain, contemporary writers of dystopian fiction demonstrate literature working in its most dissensual, political and transformative mode.
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Stock, Adam. "Mid twentieth-century dystopian fiction and political thought." Thesis, Durham University, 2011. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3465/.

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This thesis examines political and social thought in dystopian fiction of the mid-twentieth century. It focuses on works by four authors: Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (1924), Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), and John Wyndham’s postwar novels (especially The Day of the Triffids (1951), The Kraken Wakes (1953) and The Chrysalids (1955)). The central concern of this thesis is how political and social ideas are developed within a literary mode which evolved as response to both literary concerns and political ideas, including on the one hand literary utopias, science fiction, satire, and literary modernism; and on the other hand modernity, social Darwinism, apocalypse, war, and changes in gender roles in the broader culture. It is argued that the narrative structures of these novels are crucial in enabling them to perform such critical tasks. These texts use fictionality to enact self-reflexive critiques of the disasters of their age that both acknowledge their own emergence from the post-Enlightenment tradition in the history of political ideas, and criticise the failings of this very tradition of which they are part. The work of a variety of critical theorists, including Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Hannah Arendt and Raymond Williams inform this analysis. This thesis aims to demonstrate how comparative readings of critical theory and literature can reveal their mutually interactive significance as cultural reactions to historical events. Dystopian fictions of the mid-twentieth century are both important documents in cultural history, and valuable literary examples of the development and diffusion of a plurality of modernisms within popular fiction.
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Bakker, Barbara. "Arabic dystopias in the 21st century : A study on 21st century Arabic dystopian fiction through the analysis of four works of Arabic dystopian narrative." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Arabiska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27968.

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Dystopian fiction as intended in the Western literary tradition is a 20 th century phenomenon on the Arabic literary scene. This relatively new genre has been experiencing an uplift since the beginning of the 21st century and many works that have been defined dystopias have been published and translated into English in the last 10 – 15 years. In order to find out their main features, Claeys’s categorization of literary dystopias is applied and a thematic analysis is carried out on four Arabic dystopian works of narrative, written by authors from different parts of the Arabic world. The analysis shows that 21st century Arabic dystopias are political dystopias, with totalitarianism as their main variation. Rather than on society, their focus is on the individual, and more specifically on personal freedom. The totalitarian constraints are mainly caused by religious fundamentalism and bureaucratic procedures. Surveillance and control over population are implemented by means of religious precepts and bureaucratic constructions, together with, in some instances, control over language and technological devices. Political totalitarianism regardless of a specific political ideology is identified as main theme. The thesis suggests that a Western-based classification framework is only partially suitable for Arabic dystopian fiction of the 21st century and that further research, including but not limited to a specific classification theory for Arabic dystopian fiction, is necessary to properly investigate this new literary trend in Arabic literature.
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Bakker, Barbara. "Arabic dystopias in the 21st century : A study on 21st century Arabic dystopian fictionthrough the analysis of four works of Arabic dystopian narrative." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Arabiska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-28495.

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Dystopian fiction as intended in the Western literary tradition is a 20 th century phenomenon on the Arabic literary scene. This relatively new genre has been experiencing an uplift since the beginning of the 21 st century and many works that have been defined dystopias have been published and translated into English in the last 10 – 15 years. In order to find out their main features, Claeys’s categorization of literary dystopias is applied and a thematic analysis is carried out on four Arabic dystopian works of narrative, written by authors from different parts of the Arabic world. The analysis shows that 21 st century Arabic dystopias are political dystopias, with totalitarianism as their main variation. Rather than on society, their focus is on the individual, and more specifically on personal freedom. The totalitarian constraints are mainly caused by religious fundamentalism and bureaucratic procedures. Surveillance and control over population are implemented by means of religious precepts and bureaucratic constructions, together with, in some instances, control over language and technological devices. Political totalitarianism regardless of a specific political ideology is identified as main theme. The thesis suggests that a Western-based classification framework is only partially suitable for Arabic dystopian fiction of the 21 st century and that further research, including but not limited to a specific classification theory for Arabic dystopian fiction, is necessary to properly investigate this new literary trend in Arabic literature.
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Ventrucci, Virginia. "Translating and Analyzing Contemporary Italian Dystopian Fiction: Leonardo Patrignani's "Tu Non Esisti"." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017.

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As the English-speaking book market is difficult to penetrate for authors who are not native speakers of English, it is important to analyze how writers of different languages can produce notable works. This dissertation sets to translate, analyze, and assess the literary value of "Tu Non Esisti", a short story written by Italian author Leonardo Patrignani, as an example of contemporary Italian dystopian fiction that could be successful abroad.
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Bouet, Elsa Dominique. "Hitting the wall : dystopian metaphors of ideology in science fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9476.

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This thesis explores the depictions of the relationship between utopia and ideology by looking at metaphors of the wall in of utopian and dystopian science fiction, such as Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Strugatsky brothers' Roadside Picnic. The wall is an image symbolising the ambiguity between ideology and utopia: the wall could be perceived to be the barrier protecting utopia while it is in fact the symbol for ideological restrictions and containment which are generating dystopia. The thesis looks at how these novels engage with the theme of the wall: it is used as an image altering history, constricting space and as a linguistic barrier. The characters' presence in and experience of the worlds is restricted by the ideological walls, and an alternate reality is created. The thesis looks at how the novels create such alternate, ideological realities and how the wall becomes the entity altering time, history, space and language. This alternate reality is used as an image of stability, but this takes on negative connotations: it becomes a constrictive force, embodying Fredric Jameson's idea that science fiction creates images of “world reduction”, caging the characters' desires, disabling the utopian impulse. The thesis therefore instigates the possibility of utopia: the wall negates all possibility of change and denies the hopes of the utopian impulse; however the characters' desire to regain humanity by destroying the ideological walls offers hope and opens up utopia, thus concluding that utopia is change and progress.
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MacNeill, Gordon. "Moulding Minds : Media, Mass Manipulation and Subjectivity in Dystopian Science Fiction." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507728.

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NEWMAN, CHINA RAE. "GENDER PERFORMANCE IN DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613347.

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This work analyzes the use and portrayal of gender in Jack London’s The Iron Heel (1908), George Orwell’s 1984 (1949), Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), and Stephanie Collins’ The Hunger Games (2008), four dystopian works written over a period of 100 years. It questions the reasoning behind the use of gender within each of the texts and looks at the changes in the use and presentation of gendered characters in each of the novels, considering the purpose of each text and the possible reasoning behind gendered portrayals of the characters in each story. Though a chronological analysis of these texts reveals a change from the portrayal of femininity as a singular good to a mindless weakness to a necessary balancing force, feminine characters remain subordinate to and weaker than masculine characters, even as a female protagonist takes the stage in the final novel. Finally, the work questions whether the conventions of the dystopian genre preclude the existence of a feminine dystopian hero or if the reason she has not yet been written is based on a cultural bias towards strong masculinity in main characters of any gender rather than the norms of the dystopian genre.
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Books on the topic "Dystopian fiction"

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Horan, Thomas. Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70675-7.

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Raffaella, Baccolini, and Moylan Tom 1943-, eds. Dark horizons: Science fiction and the dystopian imagination. New York: Routledge, 2003.

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Galtiarii, Rutger. 2084: Dystopian Fiction. Independently Published, 2020.

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Green, Eliza. Facility: Dystopian Survival Fiction. Independently Published, 2020.

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Green, Eliza. Beyond: Dystopian Survival Fiction. Independently Published, 2020.

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Russell, Coral. Animal Sanctuary : (Dystopian Fiction). Independently Published, 2017.

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Green, Eliza. Rebels: Dystopian Survival Fiction. Independently Published, 2021.

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Tomorrowville: Dystopian Science Fiction. Utamatzi Inc., 2023.

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Women's utopian and dystopian fiction. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

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Choate, Heather. Origin: Science Fiction Dystopian Romance. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015.

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Book chapters on the topic "Dystopian fiction"

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Peyton, Will. "Dystopian Relativism." In Studies in Global Science Fiction, 89–106. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79315-9_6.

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Syvertsen, Trine. "Evil Media in Dystopian Fiction." In Media Resistance, 35–53. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46499-2_3.

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Storey, John. "Dystopian and anti-utopian fiction." In Consuming Utopia, 30–47. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003010586-3.

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Höglund, Johan. "Concurrences and the Planetary Emergency: Ursula K. Le Guin in the Capitalocene." In History and Speculative Fiction, 29–44. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42235-5_2.

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AbstractUrsula Le Guin’s prescient 1971 novel The Lathe of Heaven envisions a multitude of utopian or dystopian futures made real by dreams its protagonist is made to have by a manipulating psychologist. The chapter analyzes these layered futures with the help of Gunlög Fur’s concept concurrences (2017) and Kyle Whyte’s observation that Western speculative writing frequently leaves humanity in dystopian and postapocalyptic futures “that erase Indigenous peoples’ perspectives” (2017, 225). The chapter argues that LeGuin’s vision resists the simplistic and single dystopian vision common in normative climate narratives while at the same time centering the ongoing history of colonialism. The ending of the novel thus envisions a radically multifaceted, concurrent, and imperfect future lived in a world made up as much of hope as of ruins.
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Edwards, Caroline. "Science Fiction." In The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures, 177–89. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88654-7_14.

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Thomas, P. L. "The Enduring Power of SF, Speculative and Dystopian Fiction." In Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction, 185–215. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-380-5_11.

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Engélibert, Jean-Paul. "Dystopian Fictions and Contemporary Fears." In The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief, 311–22. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003119456-27.

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McManus, Patricia. "The Strange Case of Dystopian Fiction." In The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class, 385–97. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003008354-33.

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Hintz, Carrie. "Young Adult (YA) Fiction." In The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures, 191–201. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88654-7_15.

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Stock, Adam. "Dystopia at its limits." In Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought, 127–48. New York : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Popular Culture and World Politics: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315657066-7.

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Conference papers on the topic "Dystopian fiction"

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Clemente, Violeta, and Fátima Pombo. "From Utopia to Dystopia: Students Insights for the Development of Contemporary Societies through Design Fiction." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001421.

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This work describes an educational experience exploring the speculative essence of Design Fiction as a pedagogical tool to promote engineering students’ thinking skills within a Design Thinking course. The experience took place at a Portuguese University during the academic year 2021/2022. Students were challenged to speculate about the future of contemporary societies by developing a Design Fiction Scenario around the themes of Sustainability, Future and Technology. After describing the approach adopted and overall data about the intervention, some selected students ideas are presented. Then, students’ written essays content is analyzed regarding their awareness, concerns and hopes about the future of contemporary societies. Results show that while some of the teams followed the direction of utopia, envisioning desirable scenarios to the future, other teams adopted a less optimistic view and designed scenarios where contemporary societies and technology would lead to extreme situations or even chaos, a few of them even raising strong ethical issues. In some cases, it seems rather evident that students deliberately proceeded with these pessimistic scenarios intentionally trying to provoke reactions and stimulate debate among their peers. In other cases students appear to not be aware of those possible dangerous outcomes. Finally we discuss the value and limitations of our approach and conclude by suggesting some guidelines to apply in future interventions aiming to the role of Design as discipline in creating utopian and dystopian fictions regarding scenarios of future development.
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Stiénon, Valérie. "Vivre en dystopie mais lutter contre. La fiction d’anticipation comme expression militante." In Les écrits sauvages de la contestation. Fabula, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.58282/colloques.9315.

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Обухова, Виктория Алексеевна, and Елена Евгеньевна Коптякова. "METHODS OF FORMATION OF «NEWSPEAK » VOCABULARY AND ITS TRANSLATION INTO RUSSIAN (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF THE ANTIUTOPIA ROMAN BY J. ORWELL "1984")." In Научные исследования в современном мире. Теория и практика: сборник избранных статей Всероссийской (национальной) научно-практической конференции (Санкт-Петербург, Июнь 2021). Crossref, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37539/nitp317.2021.28.51.007.

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Данная статья посвящена рассмотрению способов образования новой лексики новояза - вымышленного языка в романе Дж. Оруэлла «1984». Автор статьи рассматривает различные методы словообразования, дает им характеристику и приводит их перевод на русский язык. Материалом статьи послужил роман-антиутопия «1984», Дж.Оруэлла. This article is devoted to the consideration of the ways of forming a new vocabulary of Newspeak - a fictional language in the novel by J. Orwell "1984". The author of the article examines various methods of word formation, gives them a description and gives their translation into Russian. The article is based on the dystopian novel "1984" by J. Orwell.
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Delgado, Laura. "The Commercialization of Space in Science Fiction Movies: The Key to Sustainability or the Road to a Capitalist Dystopia?" In AIAA SPACE 2010 Conference & Exposition. Reston, Virigina: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2010-8654.

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