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Dark horizons : science fiction and the dystopian imagination

Raffaella Baccolini, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2003 - 
- Vol. 15, Iss: 2
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This article is published in Utopian Studies.The article was published on 2003-01-01. It has received 160 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dystopia.

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Mediating the real: Treme’s activated aesthetic

TL;DR: The authors explores how Treme (HBO 2010-2013) deploys reflexive aesthetic strategies to produce a critique of governmental and municipal corruption and negligence following Hurricane Katrina, and explores the role of art in this critique.

Education, State and Agency in Dystopian Children's Texts

TL;DR: The manifestation of dystopian and utopian discourses in children's texts, are inflected by questions of agency, often played out through narratives in which protagonists forge identities as members of communities and citizens of nations as mentioned in this paper.
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Countess Almaviva and the Carceral Redemption: Introducing a Musical Utopia into the Prison Walls

Luis Gomez Romero
- 01 Jul 2010 - 
TL;DR: For instance, the authors argued that the concrete dystopian experience of incarceration has frequently been challenged by the utopian horizons of opera, which Charles Fourier once conceived as a passionate pivot for social change.
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When the levees break: global heating, watery rhetoric and complexity in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a cultural form that signals the urgency of global heating, which they call "flood narratives", which are potent cultural forms that signal the urgent need for global heating.