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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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TL;DR: In this article , the authors examine the British nation and national identity in relation to the EU and pay particular attention to the prominent role that the novels attribute to the construction of the nation’s past and culture, to historical encounters, traditions and narratives.
Abstract: Cultural tensions between Britain and the European Union take centre stage in the Eurosceptic novels which represent how the EU culturally invades Britain and dystopia-like encroaches on the terrains of British history and identity, fabricating and propagandising a shared European past, a common heritage and culture. The chapter examines the novels’ discursive construction of the British nation and national identity in relation to the EU and pays particular attention to the prominent role that the novels attribute to the construction of the nation’s past and culture, to historical encounters, traditions and narratives. The chapter outlines first how the EU threatens the British nation and its narration, and second, how in turn, the fictitious resistance movements draw from the same set of national(ist) narratives to articulate their points of view: icons of nationhood, sites of memory and historical junctures become indispensable for the formation of national resistance against the EU. The chapter thereby illustrates, how the novels draw from and extrapolate Eurosceptic tropes.
01 Jan 2023
TL;DR: The differences between Brave New World and Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four are discussed in this article , where Huxley made a few brief observations about the differences between the two works.
Abstract: In October 1949, Aldous Huxley sent a letter to George Orwell, providing a few brief comments on Orwell’s just published novel Nineteen Eighty Four. Huxley had written his own vision of a dystopian future in his 1932 novel, Brave New World, and after complimenting Orwell on his work, made a few brief observations about the differences between the two works. These two works of fiction aimed to give warnings about modern developments and where they might lead in the future if humanity did not wake up to their dark as well as their bright potentialities. As literal predictions, which neither book was meant to be, their visions have fortunately not been fulfilled. But the underlying themes and tends they identified have run much further than one might have hoped.
19 Jan 2023