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A new map of hell: Satō Haruo's dystopian fiction
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A Record of Nonchalant as discussed by the authors is a story of Satō Haruo's dystopian imagination that explores the construction of a science-fiction-type dystopian world before the concept and the terms to express it gained acceptance in modern Japanese literature.Abstract:
In this paper, I examine two major aspects of Satō Haruo's dystopian imagination as articulated in his absurdist, futurological story of 1929 titled A Record of Nonchalant, referring to the eponymous city in which the story was set. First, I trace how Satō experiments with the construction of a science-fiction-type dystopian world before the concept and the terms to express it gained acceptance in modern Japanese literature. Second, I place his story in the narrative upheavals of his time, when proletarian literature, mass fiction and modernist expressions were jostling for a place in the 1920s and 1930s literary scene. Much of so-called modernist literature was influenced by a fascination for the erotic, grotesque and nonsensical, or ero guro nansensu, aspects of interwar culture. Capturing a time when narrative modes were undergoing dramatic transformation because of the changed relationship between the production, distribution and consumption of literature, Satō uses the modernist idiom to con...read more
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Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
TL;DR: In this article, Jameson's most substantial work since "Postmodernism", investigates the development of the Utopian form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of utopian thinking in a post-Communist age.
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Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination
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