Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian ImaginationTom Moylan, Raffaella Baccolini Routledge, 02.12.2013 - 288 Seiten First published in 2003. 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. |
Inhalt
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OptimismPessimism and UtopiaDystopia
| 13 |
2 Genre Blending and the Critical Dystopia | 29 |
Suzy McKee Charnass Holdfast Series | 47 |
Pat Cadigans Networks | 69 |
5 Posthuman Bodies and Agency in Octavia Butlers
Xenogenesis | 91 |
Memory and Historical Reconciliation in Ursula K Le Guins | 113 |
State Agency and Dystopia in Kim Stanley Robinsons Antarctica and Ursula K Le Guins The Telling | 135 |
Naturalism and Dystopia in Fight Club and Ghost Dog | 167 |
10 Theses on Dystopia 2001 | 187 |
Slavery and Its Others | 203 |
A Note on the Costs of Eutopia | 225 |
Conclusion Critical Dystopia and Possibilities | 233 |
Notes on Contributors | 251 |
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8 Unmasking the Real? Critique and Utopia in Recent SF Films | 155 |
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agency alienation anti-utopian argues Atwood become Bloch Cadigan characters Charnas’s classical dystopia communities concrete dystopia contemporary critical utopia critique culture cyberpunk Delany Delany’s desire Dhalgren Donawerth dystopian fiction dystopian narrative dystopian text Ekumen essay Feminist Critical Dystopias feminist dystopias fems Fight Club film future Ghost Dog global Guin Guin’s Handmaid’s Tale hegemonic Holdfast hope horizon human identity ideology imagination individual Jameson Katharine Burdekin literary live London Lyman Tower Lyman Tower Sargent memory Mindplayers Moylan narrator Nineteen Eighty-Four novel Oankali Octavia Butler one’s ooloi oppression Orwell past Pat Cadigan Piercy Piercy’s political possible posthuman present protagonist radical reader reading reality relationship resistance Sargent satire Science Fiction sexual slave narrative slavery social society space story strategy structure Sutty Suvin Swastika Night Synners Telling tion traditional Trans transformation Truman Show Untainted Sky Ursula K Utopian Studies violence women York