Moylan / Baccolini Dark Horizons

Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-317-79354-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moylan, Tom

Baccolini, Raffaella

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Dystopia and Histories" Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan
1. "Utopia in Dark Times: Optimism/Pessimism and Utopia/Dystopia" Ruth Levitas and Lucy Sargisson
2. "Genre Blending and the Critical Dystopia" Jane Donawerth
3. "The Writing of Utopia and the Feminist Critial Dystopia: Suzy MKee Charnas' Holdfast Series" Ildney Cavalcanti
4. "Cyberpunk and Dystopia: Pat Cadigan's Networks" David Seed
5. Posthuman Bodies and Agency in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis" Naomi Jacobs
6. "'A useful knowledge of the present is rooted in the past': Memory and Historical Reconciliation in Ursula K. LeGuin's The Telling Raffaella Baccolini
7. "'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 Moylan
8. "Unmasking the Real? Critique and Utopia in Recent SF Films" Peter Fitting
9. "Where the Prospective Horizon is Omitted: Naturalism and Dystopia in Fight Club and Ghost Dog" Phillip E. Wegner
10. "Theses on Dystopia and Anti-Utopia" Darko Suvin
11. "Concrete Dystopia: Slavery and its Others" Maria Varsam
12. "The Problem of the 'Flawed Utopia': A Note on the Costs of Eutopia" Lyman Tower Sargent
Conclusion: "Critical Dystopia and Possibilities" Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan
Notes on Contributors
Index

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.