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Dystopia
About: Dystopia is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2146 publications have been published within this topic receiving 15163 citations. The topic is also known as: cacotopia.
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01 Jul 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the significance of Sibanda's creative overlay of his spatial ambivalence to his rural Matabeleland home on the relationship his characters have with their spaces, creating a utopian landscape.
Abstract: The dire socio-political and economic landscape in Zimbabwe has forced many Zimbabweans, young and old, to relocate to various and different diasporic locations. When these diaspora-based Zimbabweans “visit” or literary represent their rural villages, disparate spatial metaphors emerge. Writing from Johannesburg, Bongani Sibanda ambivalently locates and dislocates his characters from the literary places and space he creates for them. Drawing on various utopian spatial theoretical perspectives, this article examines the significance of Sibanda’s creative overlay of his spatial ambivalence to his rural Matabeleland home on the relationship(s) his characters have with their spaces, creating a utopian landscape. This article argues that the characters’ (and by extension Sibanda’s) dislocation and breaking away from the traditional life and places that he creates for them, instigate a dystopian longing for a new life, one that is a conglomeration of history and time. Using three short stories by Sibanda (Grace, The Service, and Death by a Cell Phone), this article explores this dislocation, metaphorical and real, highlighting the plight of young people from Matabeleland who are either caught up in this utopian world or long to escape to a dystopian modern world.
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01 May 2015
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TL;DR: Lukacs' mature theory of Hegelian Marxism has been criticized for the determinacy with which it predicts utopias as a possibility for the future as discussed by the authors, which is not the outcome of any foreseeable process of social change.
Abstract: Lukacs' mature theory of Hegelian Marxism has been criticized for the determinacy with which it predicts utopia as a possibility for the future. This paper instead examines Lukacs' early, pre-Marxist thinking, which asserts utopia only as the grounding concept for a procedure of cultural criticism, and not as the outcome of any foreseeable process of social change. I attempt to evaluate this non-Marxist utopianism of the young Lukacs by focusing in particular on 'The Foundering of Form Against Life: Soren Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen', a 1910 essay in which Lukacs criticizes Kierkegaard for failing to articulate any concept of utopia and for focusing instead on private 'faith' as a potential solution to the endemic problems of modernity, such as alienation and reification. Because young Lukacs himself thus sets up Kierkegaard as a dystopian rival for his own utopian thought, I use a comparison between these two thinkers as a basis for speculation on the advantages and disadvantages of positing a normative concept of utopia as the basis for social criticism.
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TL;DR: In this paper, four selected contemporary dystopian novels by critically acclaimed writers, which develop the theme of the overflow of human civilisation and examine the menaces that it causes on several levels, are analysed.
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