Dark Horizons

Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-96613-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moylan, Tom

Baccolini, Raffaella

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ContentsIndroduction: Dystopia and Histories Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan1. Utopia in Dark Times: Optimism/Pessimism and Utopia/Dystopia Ruth Levitas and Lucy Sargisson2. Genre Blending and the Critical Dystopia Jane Donawerth3. The Writing of Utopia and the Feminist Critial Dystopia: Suzy MKee Charnas' Holdfast Series Ildney Cavalcanti4. Cyberpunk and Dystopia: Pat Cadigan's Networks David Seed5. Posthuman Bodies and Agency in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Naomi Jacobs6. 'A useful knowledge of the present is rooted in the past': Memory and Historical Reconciliation in Ursula K. LeGuin's The Telling Raffaella Baccolini7. 'The moment is here.and it's important': State, Agency, and Dystopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Antarctica and Ursula K. LeGuin's The Telling Tom Moylan8. Unmasking the Real? Critique and Utopia in Recent SF Films Peter Fitting9. Where the Prospective Horizon is Omitted: Naturalism and Dystopia in Fight Club and Ghost Dog Phillip E. Wegner10. Theses on Dystopia and Anti-Utopia Darko Suvin11. Concrete Dystopia: Slavery and its Others Maria Varsam12. The Problem of the 'Flawed Utopia': A Note on the Costs of Eutopia Lyman Tower SargentConclusion: Critical Dystopia and Possibilities Raffaella Baccolini and Tom MoylanNotes on ContributorsIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Moylan is Glucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing at the University of Limerick. He is author of Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia and Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination (Routledge), and coeditor of Not Yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch.
Raffaella Baccolini is Associate Professor of English at the University of Bologna.