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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 Jan 2010
TL;DR: McCarthy's The Road and Dante's the Inferno contain textual and thematic comparisons as discussed by the authors, and both texts reflect a critical dystopia that speculates on human spirituality and offers a critique of society through a tour of sin and suffering in a desolate setting, while the Inferno creates a world that exhibits the worst fears of the medieval Catholic subconscious of Dante's time.
Abstract: Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Dante's the Inferno contain textual and thematic comparisons. While the Inferno creates a world that exhibits the worst fears of the medieval Catholic subconscious of Dante's time, The Road paints a world of the darkest fears of the current American subconscious. Both texts reflect a critical dystopia that speculates on human spirituality and offers a critique of society through a tour of sin and suffering in a desolate setting.

1 citations

18 Jun 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a view of the world in a future time in which, after a civil war, the inhabitants of the fictitious Panem live under the oppression of a dictatorship.
Abstract: In recent years the success of children's and youth literature has passed from book covers to the big screen. These adaptations have become box-office hits and socio-cultural phenomena. Some examples are Harry Potter (2001), The Chronicles of Narnia (2005), Twilight (2008) or, more recently, The Hunger Games (2012). This analysis focuses on the trilogy The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins and comprised of The Hunger Games, Catching Fireand Mockingjay. The trilogy presents a view of the world in a future time in which, after a civil war, the inhabitants of the fictitious Panem live under the oppression of a dictatorship. This study includes an analysis of intertextuality in The Hunger Games, particularly in its audiovisual adaptation, as well as an analysis of the allusions to the classics, war and "reality TV' by means of the characters, their names and dystopia.

1 citations

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20 Sep 2018
TL;DR: The authors discuss artistic works in which Black protagonists shift the ideas of dystopia and apocalypse from future temporality, through social theory and critique, these works strengthen a post-apocalyptic reading of the present, when all that remains is precariousness as a way of life.
Abstract: Departing from the debate on the concepts of Afrofuturism and Afropessimism this paper questions the place of contemporary Black narrative dystopias (in Cinema, Music and Literature); therefore, it discusses artistic works in which Black protagonists shift the ideas of dystopia and apocalypse from future temporality. Through Black social theory and critique, these works strengthen a post-apocalyptic reading of the present, when all that remains is precariousness as a way of life, given that the end of the world has already happened.

1 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20241
2023244
2022672
202192
2020142
2019141