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.

Dark Horizons sciense fiction and the dystopian imagination

edited by Rafaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan

Baccolini, Raffaella; Moylan, Tom, 1943-

Moylan, Tom; Baccolini, Raffaella

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Taylor & Francis Group

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gower Publishing Ltd

Taylor and Francis

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

New York, New York State, 2003

New York, United States, 2004

September 17, 2003

September 18, 2003

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1, US, 2003

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 online resource (xi, 264 pages)
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction. Dystopia and Histories / RAFFAELLA BACCOLINI AND TOM MOYLAN -- Utopia in Dark Times: Optimism/ Pessimism and Utopia/Dystopia / RUTH LEVITAS AND LUCY SARGISSON -- Genre Blending and the Critical Dystopia / JANE DONAWERTH -- The Writing of Utopia and the Feminist Critical Dystopia: Suzy McKee Charnas's Holdfast Series / ILDNEY CAVALCANTI -- Cyberpunk and Dystopia: Pat Cadigan's Networks / DAVID SEED -- Posthuman Bodies and Agency in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis / NAOMI JACOBS -- "A useful knowledge of the present is rooted in the past": Memory and Historical Reconciliation in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Telling / RAFFAELLA BACCOLINI -- "The moment is here ... and it's important": State, Agency, and Dystopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Antarctica and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Telling / TOM MOYLAN -- Unmasking the Real? Critique and Utopia in Recent SF Films / PETER FITTING -- Where the Prospective Horizon Is Omitted: Naturalism and Dystopia in Fight Club and Ghost Dog / PHILLIP E. WEGNER -- Theses on Dystopia 2001 / DARKO SUVIN -- Concrete Dystopia: Slavery and Its Others / MARIA VARSAM -- 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
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<p>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&#58; 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.</p>

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