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9780415966139

Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415966139

  • ISBN10:

    0415966132

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-09-18
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

With essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Dark Horizons focuses on the development of critical dystopia in science fiction at the end of the twentieth century. In these narratives of places more terrible than even the reality produced by the neo-conservative backlash of the 1980s and the neoliberal hegemony of the 1990s, utopian horizons stubbornly anticipate a different and more just world. The top-notch team of contributors explores this development in a variety of ways: by looking at questions of form, politics, the politics of form, and the form of politics. In a broader context, the essays connect their textual and theoretical analyses with historical developments such as September 11th, the rise and downturn of the global economy, and the growth of anti-capitalist movements.

Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Dystopia and Histories"
"Utopia in Dark Times: Optimism/Pessimism and Utopia/Dystopia"
"Genre Blending and the Critical Dystopia"
"The Writing of Utopia and the Feminist Critial Dystopia: Suzy MKee Charnas' Holdfast Series"
"Cyberpunk and Dystopia: Pat Cadigan's Networks"
Posthuman Bodies and Agency in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis "
"'A useful knowledge of the present is rooted in the past': Memory and Historical Reconciliation in Ursula
The Telling Raffaella Baccolini
"'The moment is here...and it's important': State, Agency, and Dystopia in Kim
Antarctica and Ursula
The Telling "
"Unmasking the Real? Critique and Utopia in Recent SF Films"
"Where the Prospective Horizon is Omitted: Naturalism and Dystopia in Fight Club and Ghost Dog "
"Theses on Dystopia and Anti-Utopia"
"Concrete Dystopia: Slavery and its Others"
"The Problem of the 'Flawed Utopia': A Note on the Costs of Eutopia"
Conclusion: "Critical Dystopia and Possibilities"
Notes on Contributors
Index
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