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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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28 citations
01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: The roots and rise of the female protagonist in contemporary young adult dystopias have been explored in this article, focusing on the role of nature in young adult dystopian female protagonists' awakenings and agency.
Abstract: Contents: Introduction From 'new woman' to 'future girl': the roots and rise of the female protagonist in contemporary young adult dystopias. Part I Reflections and Reconsiderations of Rebellious Girlhood: Girl power and girl activism in the fiction of Suzanne Collins, Scott Westerfeld, and Moira Young, Sonya Sawyer Fritz 'I'm beginning to know who I am': the rebellious subjectivities of Katniss Everdeen and Tris Prior, Miranda A. Green-Barteet Of Scrivens and Sparks: girl geniuses in young adult dystopian fiction, Rachel Dean-Ruzicka Docile bodies, dangerous bodies: sexual awakening and social resistance in young adult dystopian novels, Sara K. Day. Part II Forms and Signs of Rebellion: Gender rolls: bread and resistance in the 'Hunger Games' trilogy, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey Rebels in dresses: distractions of competitive girlhood in young adult dystopian fiction, Amy L. Montz The three faces of Tally Youngblood: rebellious identity-changing in Scott Westerfeld's 'Uglies' series, Mary Jeanette Moran 'Perpetually waving to an unseen crowd': satire and process in Beauty Queens, Bridgitte Barclay. Part III Contexts and Communities of Rebellion: Rebellious natures: the role of nature in young adult dystopian female protagonists' awakenings and agency, Megan McDonough and Katherine A. Wagner Real or not real - Katniss Everdeen loves Peeta Melark: the lingering effects of discipline in the 'Hunger Games' trilogy, June Pulliam The incompatibility of female friendship and rebellion, Ann M.M. Childs. Index.
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TL;DR: The 1990s can seem an anomalous decade, the only one since the Second World War when technological civilization did not appear particularly bent on self-destruction as mentioned in this paper, but even dismayed leftists tended to forecast the coming century by extrapolating from current trends.
Abstract: In retrospect, the nineties can seem an anomalous decade, the only one since the Second World War when technological civilization did not appear particularly bent on self-destruction. Of course, not everyone greeted the end of the cold war as the dawning of a millennium of capitalist democracy, but even dismayed leftists tended to forecast the coming century by extrapolating from current trends. These included increased liberalization of trade, increased commodification of natural resources (such as water) and human roles (such as fertilization, courtship, and the care of the elderly), the internationalization of culture, continual advances in digital technology and genetic science, the rolling back of governmental authority to its police powers, and regular elections to ratify it all. This vision, whether taken for a nightmare or a dream, was of a world integrated under a total market and consecrated to private as opposed to public life: the "private sector" of corporations, and the "private life" of households. You called this tendency globalization if you liked it, neoliberalism if you didn't. Either way, the sense was that capitalism would, for the foreseeable future, consolidate its achievements rather than undermine them.
27 citations
Book•
28 Sep 1998
TL;DR: Acknowledgements Wordsworth's Charting Utopia: An Introduction From Dystopia to Utopia Narrative and Lyrical Geographies Naming New Worlds A 'Scanty Plot of Ground': The 1802 Sonnets Abandoning Utopia Conclusion Notes Index as mentioned in this paper
Abstract: List of Plates Acknowledgements Wordsworth's Charting Utopia: An Introduction From Dystopia to Utopia Narrative and Lyrical Geographies Naming New Worlds A 'Scanty Plot of Ground': The 1802 Sonnets Abandoning Utopia Conclusion Notes Index
27 citations
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13 Jan 2011
TL;DR: This paper explored a diverse range of Americana, where the borders between the real and the imaginary, dream and dystopia, America and the world, blur and disappear in the early 1900s to the age of Google and digital music.
Abstract: In 1941, media mogul Henry R Luce exulted, “American jazz, Hollywood movies, American slang, American machines and patented products are in fact the only things that every community in the world, from Zanzibar to Hamburg, recognizes in common” It is as true today as it was then From the early days of Hollywood, an insatiable demand for US cultural products—in advertising, fashion, film, popular music, television, and much else—has had a profound and continuing impact across the globe Media, Popular Culture, and the American Century explores a diverse range of Americana, where the borders between the real and the imaginary, dream and dystopia, America and the world, blur and disappear Essays move from configurations of US culture in the early 1900s to the age of Google and digital music
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