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Hart, Heidi. Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01815-3.

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Doyle, Mark. Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien’s Legendarium. Lexington Books, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978738928.

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Utopia and Dystopia in Tolkien’s Legendarium explores how Tolkien’s works speak to many modern people’s utopian desires despite the overwhelming dominance of dystopian literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It also examines how Tolkien’s malevolent societies in his legendarium have the unique ability to capture the fears and doubts that many people sense about the trajectory of modern society. Tolkien’s works do this by creating utopian and dystopian longing while also rejecting the stilted conventions of most literary utopias and dystopias. Utopia and Dystopia in Tolkien’s Le

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Imperfect worlds and dystopian narratives in contemporary cinema. Peter Lang, 2011.

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Stock, Adam. Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought: Narratives of World Politics. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Stock, Adam. Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought: Narratives of World Politics. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Stock, Adam. Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought: Narratives of World Politics. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Stock, Adam. Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought: Narratives of World Politics. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought: Narratives of World Politics. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Hill, Matthew B., ed. Dystopian States of America. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216182764.

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Dystopian States of America is a crucial resource that studies the impact of dystopian works on American society—including ways in which they reflect our deep and persistent fears about environmental calamities, authoritarian governments, invasive technologies, and human weakness. Dystopian States of America provides students and researchers with an illuminating resource for understanding the impact and relevance of dystopian and apocalyptic works in contemporary American culture. Through its wide survey of dystopian works in numerous forms and genres, the book encourages readers to connect wi

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Schmeink, Lars. The Utopian, the Dystopian, and the Heroic Deeds of One. Liverpool University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781781383766.003.0006.

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Chapter 6 discusses the TV series Heroes as more optimistic in its depiction of the social consequences of posthuman evolution than the other texts analyzed. The show's premise of posthumanity as a result of evolutionary mutation reflects radical changes in subjectivity not onto an elite few, as in classic superhero narratives, but onto the everyday man. The series consequently emphasizes the potential of the posthuman condition as a catalyst for global social and political change – a solution to the 'big issues' that elude the current institutions of power. The posthuman becomes the site of s

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Arvidsson, Stefan. Myths and Utopias, Critics and Caretakers. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190911966.003.0006.

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This chapter presents a more direct challenge to Bruce Lincoln’s work, arguing that a purely critical method is ultimately insufficient and that a balanced approach to the study of religion also requires space for hope—that is, the hope for a possible future of the sort found in utopian narratives. Examining a wide range of narrative forms, from folktales and legends to utopian and dystopian myths, the chapter makes a strong case for the importance of humanistic scholarship in the twenty-first century. This would include not only the critical interrogation of religious narratives that Lincoln

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Paprocki, Kasia. Threatening Dystopias. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501759154.001.0001.

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Bangladesh is currently ranked as one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world. This book investigates the politics of climate change adaptation throughout the South Asian nation. The book engages with developers, policy makers, scientists, farmers, and rural migrants to show how Bangladeshi and global elites ignore the history of landscape transformation and its attendant political conflicts. The book looks at how groups craft economic narratives and strategies that redistribute power and resources away from peasant communities. Although these groups claim that increased producti

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Schliephake, Christopher, and Evi Zemanek, eds. Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories from Antiquity to the Anthropocene. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666984293.

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Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories from Antiquity to the Anthropocene studies the interplay of environmental perception and the way societies throughout history have imagined the future state of “nature” and the environments in which coming generations would live. What sorts of knowledge were and are involved in outlining future environments? What kinds of texts and narrative strategies were and are developed and modified over time? How did and do scenarios and narratives of the past shape (hi)stories of the future? This book answers these questions from a diachronic as well as a cross-cul

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Grønstad, Asbjørn, and Lene M. Johannessen, eds. Microdystopias. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666996630.

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This edited collection examines the effects that macrosystems have on the figuration of our everyday—of microdystopias—and argues that microdystopic narratives are part of a genre that has emerged in contrast to classic dystopic manifestations of world-shattering events. From different methodological and theoretical positions in fieldworks ranging from literary works and young adult series to concrete places and games, the contributors in Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment sound the depths of an existential sense of shrinking horizons – spatially, temporally, emotiona

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Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative: Sounding the Disaster. Palgrave Pivot, 2018.

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Hart, Heidi. Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative: Sounding the Disaster. Palgrave Pivot, 2019.

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Blade Runner and the Cyberpunk Narrative. Is Cyberpunk a Dystopian Narrative or a Genre of Its Own? GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2018.

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Varughese, E. Dawson. Post-Millennial Indian Speculative Fiction in English. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350241138.

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Exploring expressions of ‘Indianness’ buried within and scattered across post-millennial Indian speculative fiction in English, this book asks questions around what it means to ‘belong’ to an India of ‘now’ and what it might mean to belong to multiple Indias of the (near) future. With dystopia, near-future, apocalyptic Indias and fantastical metropolises all imagined across this body of writing,Post-Millennial Indian Speculative Fiction in Englishtraces economic, social and political transformations in post-2000 ‘New India’ across these various narratives. Drawing on established notions of the

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Jurcic, Christina, Francisca Roca Arañó, and María Luisa Siguan Boehmer. Inseln Als Literarischer und Kultureller Raum: Utopien, Dystopien, Narrative der Reise. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2023.

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Jurcic, Christina, Francisca Roca Arañó, and María Luisa Siguan Boehmer. Inseln Als Literarischer und Kultureller Raum: Utopien, Dystopien, Narrative der Reise. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2023.

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Jurcic, Christina, Francisca Roca Arañó, and María Luisa Siguan Boehmer. Inseln Als Literarischer und Kultureller Raum: Utopien, Dystopien, Narrative der Reise. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2023.

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Boudreau, Brenda, and Kelli Maloy, eds. Abortion in Popular Culture. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666983265.

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Abortion in Popular Culture: A Call to Action brings together scholars who examine depictions of abortion in film, television, literature, and social media. By examining texts ranging from classic television series such as Maude and Roseanne and recent films such as Never Rarely Sometimes Always and Unpregnant to dystopian novels and social-media campaigns, the essays analyze narrative styles, rhetorical strategies, and cinematic techniques, all of which shape cultural attitudes toward abortion. They also analyze cultural shifts, including the willingness or reluctance of networks, cable chann

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A. Ritzenhoff, Karen, and Angela Krewani, eds. Apocalypse in Film. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881818531.

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We live in a world at risk. Dire predictions about our future or the demise of planet earth persist. Even fictional representations depict narratives of decay and the end of a commonly shared social reality. Along with recurring Hollywood blockbusters that imagine the end of the world, there has been a new wave of zombie features as well as independent films that offer various visions of the future. The Apocalypse in Film: Dystopias, Disasters, and Other Visions about the End of the World offers an overview of Armageddon in film from the silent era to the present. This collection of essays dis

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Smicek, Melanie. Suburbia As a Narrative Space Between Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary American Cinema. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2014.

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Mitchell, Renae L. Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse. Lexington Books, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666996272.

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Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse: Novelistic Revisions of Dystopian Motherhood deconstructs the ways in which women novelists have reconceived the post-apocalyptic genre in recent decades through narratives centered on heroic maternal characters. These writers have placed midwives, pregnant women, and mothers at the forefront of their novels, transforming them from the hapless victims of male oppressors to protagonists who are instrumental in transforming the post-apocalyptic social landscape from one that attempts to reconstruct a patriarchal past to one that safeguards, validates, and even l

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Staffell, Simon, and Akil Awan, eds. Jihadism Transformed. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190650292.001.0001.

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Jihadist narratives have evolved dramatically over the past five years, driven by momentous events in the Middle East and beyond; the death of bin Laden; the rise and ultimate failure of the Arab Spring; and most notably, the rise of the so-called Islamic State. For many years, Al-Qaeda pointed to an aspirational future Caliphate as their utopian end goal - one which allowed them to justify their violent excesses in the here and now. Islamic State turned that aspiration into a dystopic reality, and in the process hijacked the jihadist narrative, breathing new life into the global Salafi-Jihadi

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Dinello, Dan. Children of Men. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781999334024.001.0001.

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A mirror of tomorrow, Alfonso Cuarón's visionary Children of Men (2006) was released to good reviews and a poor box office but is now regarded by many as a twenty-first-century masterpiece. Its propulsive story dramatizes a dystopian future when an infertile humanity hurtles toward extinction and an African refugee holds the key to its survival. Cuarón creates a documentary of the near future when Britain's totalitarian government hunts down and cages refugees like animals as the world descends into violent chaos. In the midst of xenophobia and power abuses that have led to a permanent state o

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Köhler, Astrid, and Henrike Schmidt. Health Resort in Modern European Literature. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350378001.

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This innovative open access book reappraises the health resort in literature from its rise in the late Enlightenment period to the wellness age of the 21st century. Most of the existing body of academic work on the subject is concerned with either the classic spa novel or sanatorium narratives, and focuses on distinct national literatures, selected canonical texts, and particular themes. Contrary to this conventionThe Health Resort in Modern European Literaturecovers all types of health resort texts and sees them as part of a "transnational resort narrative" that covers the whole of Europe. It

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Smicek, Melanie. American Dreams, Suburban Nightmares: Suburbia As a Narrative Space Between Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary American Cinema. Anchor Academic Publishing. ein Imprint der Diplomica Verlag GmbH, 2014.

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Kahn, Andrew, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, and Stephanie Sandler. Prose and drama. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199663941.003.0036.

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A central theme of narrative prose and dramatic theater remained the conflict between an individual and society, increasingly specified as the clash of a man or woman with ongoing historical destruction. Prose and drama, like poetry, tested the formation of new subjectivities in response to historical catastrophe. Alongside the manifestations of Socialist Realism and its derivatives, the century-long evolution of the utopian/dystopian is traced. Attention is paid to the aesthetics of the grotesque and to the poetics of skaz, to an emerging trend of existentialist narrative and the flourishing

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Ach, Jada. Reading Aridity in Western American Literature. Lexington Books, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978722118.

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In literary and cinematic representations, deserts often betoken collapse and dystopia. Reading Aridity in Western American Literature offers readings of literature set in the American Southwest from ecocritical and new materialist perspectives. This book explores the diverse epistemologies, histories, relationships, futures, and possibilities that emerge from the representation of American deserts in fiction, film, and literary art, and traces the social, cultural, economic, and biotic narratives that foreground deserts, prompting us to reconsider new, provocative modes of human/nonhuman enga

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Lothian, Alexis. Old Futures. NYU Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479811748.001.0001.

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Old Futures traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital media. Centering works by women, queers, and people of color that are marginalized within most accounts of the genre, the book offers a new perspective on speculative fiction studies while reframing established theories of queer temporality by arguing that futures imagined in the past offer new ways to queer the present. Imagined futures have been central to the creation and maintenance of imperial domination and t

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Kahn, Andrew, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, and Stephanie Sandler. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199663941.003.0031.

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Part V explores the relationship between the dramatic history of the twentieth century and the transformations of Russian literary culture and poetics, arguing that the story is one of unexpected continuities as much as rupture. The Part outlines the development of Russian modernism and the avant-garde in the Silver Age (1890s–1917), moving on to the avant-garde poetics and institutions reinvented in late Soviet (1960s–early 1980s), and treating underground and post-Soviet literature (since 1991), as well as the émigré literature of Russia Abroad. Émigré and Soviet literature are shown to foll

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Carroll, Rachel. Transgender and The Literary Imagination. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474414661.001.0001.

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Transgender and the Literary Imagination examines a selection of literary fiction by British, Irish and American authors first published between 1918 and 2000, each text featuring a protagonist (and in some cases two) whose gender identity differs from that assigned to them at birth: George Moore’s naturalistic novella set in an 1860s Dublin hotel, Albert Nobbs (1918); Angela Carter’s dystopian feminist fantasy The Passion of New Eve (1977); Jackie Kay’s contemporary fiction inspired by the life of a post-war jazz musician, Trumpet (1998); Patricia Duncker’s historical fiction based on the lif

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Doughty, Terri, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, and Janet Grafton, eds. Children’s Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350510005.

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Bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, this open access book explores how children’s literature, and cultural experiences tailored to them, afford young people new ways of navigating a world facing impending environmental crisis.With chapters from researchers in Europe, North America, Australasia and Asia, and working in fields such as literary, cultural, childhood and education studies, it provides multidisciplinary perspectives, visions and practices on, and models for, how children might embrace hope rather than fear as they confront today’s environmental issues. St

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Richards, Ronnie. “What’s Your Name, Where Are You From, and What Have You Had?”. Edited by Roger Mantie and Gareth Dylan Smith. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190244705.013.18.

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This discussion considers the utopian/dystopian dialect in relation to Acid House culture in Leeds during the late 1980s. It utilizes an ethnographic, autoethnographic, and fictional/nonfictional narrative method to illustrate the key signifiers and relations of Acid House culture, including utopian ideals, social class, and the significance of geographical location. Overall the chapter serves to illustrate the significance of individual and group identities, the importance of embodiment and the changing intersection of social constructs such as class. Chas Critcher had defined Acid House as “

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Kavadlo, Jesse. American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400611551.

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Bringing together the most popular genres of the 21st century, this book argues that Americans have entered a new era of narrative dominated by the fear—and wish fulfillment—of the breakdown of authority and terror itself. Bringing together disparate and popular genres of the 21st century, American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror: Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures argues that popular culture has been preoccupied by fantasies and narratives dominated by the anxiety —and, strangely, the wish fulfillment—that comes from the breakdowns of morality, family, law and or

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Gro, Lena. Literarische Dystopie und Die Narrative Funktion Von Offred in the Handmaid's Tale Von Margret Atwood. ein Handlungsorientierter Unterrichtsentwurf Im Fach Englisch. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2019.

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Thurschwell, Pamela. Teenage Time. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350318458.

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Adolescence has been codified as an unpredictable, experimental and liminal time. Teenage Time reads this phase as queer in its framing and disruption of developmental narratives of modernity, showing that the identity of the teenager, as it has been culturally perceived in different epochs developing since the 1940s, has shaped the temporal imaginary of the 20th and 21st century. From the conception of the teenager after the Second World War, through notions of rebellion and consumption peaking in the 1980s and 1990s, to representations of their precarious futures amidst the political, social

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Nette, Andrew. Rollerball. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325666.001.0001.

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Rollerball, the Canadian-born director and producer Norman Jewison's 1975 vision of a future dominated by anonymous corporations and their executive elite, in which all individual effort and aggressive emotions are subsumed into a horrifically violent global sport, remains critically overlooked. What little has been written deals mainly with its place within the renaissance of Anglo-American science-fiction cinema in the 1970s, or focuses on the elaborately shot, still visceral to watch, game sequences, so realistic they briefly gave rise to speculation Rollerball may become an actual sport. D

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Banerji, Debashish, Md Monirul Islam, and Samrat Sengupta, eds. Posthumanism and India. Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5040/9789361316081.

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The book is about what posthumanism means in the contemporary Indian context and what different lines of consideration this can take. The world today has universalized a Eurocentric history of the human with its privileges, oppressions, exploitations and exclusions. On the one hand, this has led to the triumphalist narrative of technology, the blurring of biological embodiment through prostheses and the dream of transhumanist self-exceeding. On the other hand, we are witness to the contemporary eruption of dystopian anomalies due to the dis-balance or revolt of the "others" of humanism - clima

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Kukrechtová, Daniela. Unplanned Cities in Modern American Poetry. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765129197.

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Reveals how five modern American poets challenged prevailing discourses about urbanization through lyrical representations of cities and the diverse people who lived in them. In early 20th-century America, industrialization and the influx of immigrants and rural migrants into urban centers fostered a certain representation of and distaste for cities and their inhabitants. The dominant discourse was one of containment through utopian planning and violent reshaping, often reflected in both policy-making and writings about cities during this time. Yet as Daniela Kukrechtová identifies, urban lite

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Trites, Roberta Seelinger. Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children's and Adolescent Literature. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496813800.001.0001.

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Twenty-First Century Feminisms in Children’s and Adolescent Literature employs methodologies from material feminism to demonstrate how feminist thinking has influenced literature for the young in the last two decades. Material feminism provides people with ways of thinking about the interactions among discourse, embodiment, technology, the environment, cognition, and the ethics of caring. This book thus applies the principles behind material feminism and interrelated manifestations of feminism (such as Critical Race Theory and ecofeminism) to texts written for the young to demonstrate how shif

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Nishime, Leilani. Aliens. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038075.003.0004.

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This chapter examines the visual exclusion of multiracial Asians. It also looks at television and film's overt use of multiracial tropes to signal utopic/dystopic futures. The science-fiction television series Battlestar Galactica follows the logic of post-race, wherein racial differences are acknowledged but then ignored. The show's narrative hinges upon the survival of a child, Hera, the bi-species and multiracial child of the cyborg Athena (Korean American actress Grace Park) and the human Helo (Euro-American actor Tahmoh Penikett). Hera's representation resonates with images of the multira

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Adin, Mariah. The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400621819.

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What caused four recently bar mitzvahed middle-class youths to go on a crime spree of assault and murder in 1954? This book provides a compelling narrative retelling of the boys, their crimes, and a U.S. culture obsessed with juvenile delinquency. After ongoing months of daily headlines about gang shootouts, stomp-killings, and millions of dollars worth of vandalism, by the summer of 1954, America had had enough of juvenile delinquency. It was in this environment that 18-year-old Jack Koslow and the other three teenage members of the Brooklyn Thrill Killers committed their heinous crimes and a

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