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Dark horizons : science fiction and the dystopian imagination
Raffaella Baccolini,Tom Moylan +1 more
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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.read more
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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.
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Young Saviors and Agents of Change: Power, Environment, and Girlhood in Contemporary Finnish Young Adult Dystopias
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
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.