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Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature
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The article was published on 2014-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dystopia.read more
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Super Sad True Melting Pot: Reimagining the Melting Pot in a Transnational World in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story
TL;DR: The End of America, the End of Postmodernism as mentioned in this paper is an aesthetic movement, lasting from World War II to the end of the Cold War, defined by a new wave of American writers engaging with globalized, technological consumerism in fresh and innovative ways.
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Women marginalization and political corruption in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the function of dystopia in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1986) and focused on the issues of women marginalization and political corruption by approaching the dystopia qualities in the novel.
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Trespassing the U.S.-Mexico Border in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange
TL;DR: The 1990s, which marked the five-hundred year anniversary of Columbus' “discovery” of the Americas, coincided with the emergence of new additions to the canon of dystopian literature as mentioned in this paper.
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Drunkenness, Tattoos, and Dirty Underwear: Jeremiah as a Modern Masculine Metaphor
TL;DR: This article explored three tropes of masculinity in the book: drunkenness, bodily markings, and gendered prophetic performance to explore how the text uses metaphoric images to represent this rhetorical strategy.