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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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23 Nov 2021TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the struggles, goals, and motivations of women characters in The Hunger Games Trilogy, and found that women characters play pivotal roles in society and become symbols of hope.
Abstract: This paper explores the struggles, goals, and motivations of the women characters in The Hunger Games Trilogy. In detail, the study employs Elaine Showalter’s Feminist theory to reveal the women characters’ categories in terms of three stages: feminine, feminist and female. In the study, some of the women characters living in the dehumanized society of Panem have attained the last stage of feminism which is the female stage. However, other women characters are not able to fulfill their goals. Still, due to the women characters’ demand to change the system, they start an uprising. For example, the main character, Katniss Everdeen, contributes to the collapse of the ruling government in power as she accepts being the Mockingjay, the symbol of revolution. Another woman character to exemplify such a noble act is Johanna Mason who becomes part of the rebellion and survives the war against the unjust ruling of the Capitol. These women characters are slivers of light amidst the chaos. In conclusion, it is discovered that women characters play pivotal roles in society. This suggests that women characters recognize their power to accelerate societal advancement. For this dystopian trilogy, in particular, women become symbols of hope.
13 Sep 2018
TL;DR: Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao as discussed by the authors is a novel that, like its protagonist, Oscar, is in love with "Genres!". Through allusions to intermedial speculative genres, O'Wao exploits the "unreality function" to critique the extremity of American imperialism and neocolonial conditions within the Dominican Republic.
Abstract: Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a novel that, like its protagonist, Oscar, is in love with "Genres!". Through allusion to intermedial speculative genres, Oscar Wao exploits the "unreality function" to critique the extremity of American imperialism and neocolonial conditions within the Dominican Republic. The millennial proliferation of Latin American apocalyptic and dystopian fictions serves as a barometer of the mounting contradictions of the neoliberal regime of capitalism and the socio-ecological violence unleashed by structural adjustment and resource extractivism throughout the Americas. Diaz's semi-peripheral position as an immigrant writer bestows a bifurcated vision that is world-systemic in its condition of possibility. Oscar's interest in the fantastic shifts from the egoistic to the archaeological: a desire for revelation rather than gratification. For Oscar himself, genre fiction serves no function in representing his reality; it is escape rather than mimesis.
01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: The authors explored the relation between utopia and modernity on the basis of Thomas More's Utopia (1516) as well as two seminal contemporary studies: Bruno Latour's We have never been modern (1992) and Gabriel Josipovici's What Ever Happened to Modernism? (2010).
Abstract: This article seeks to explore the relation between utopia and modernity on the basis of Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) as well as two seminal contemporary studies: Bruno Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern (1992) and Gabriel Josipovici’s What Ever Happened to Modernism? (2010). The ambiguous nature of the modern prototype of utopia which displays both the eutopian and the dystopian (self-critical) impulse seems reflected in the nature of modernity. With auto-criticism inscribed in the constitution of both utopia and modernity, the leading desires of the modern period—for a greater emancipation and domination—prove to be its greatest burden both in the socio-political sphere as well as in art and literature.
TL;DR: Wide Sargasso Sea as mentioned in this paper is a post-emancipation novel with a paradoxical site of coexisting dystopia and creolotopia, where the tropical islands in the novel are presented as an evil, ugly, and diseased world for both white colonizers and the colonized, yet they are simultaneously portrayed as a special Caribbean creolotoopia formed through archipelagic thinking and the process of creolization.
Abstract: Jean Rhys’s best-known novel Wide Sargasso Sea, writing back to Charlotte Brontë’s classic Jane Eyre, is set in the exuberant natural world of the post-emancipation Caribbean. Despite its harsh depiction of cruelty, self-deception, and hypocrisy in the human world, the novel conveys a sympathetic impression of Caribbean society. The novel’s utopian/dystopian tension is centered on its imagining of the Caribbean as a paradoxical site of coexisting dystopia and creolotopia. This article focuses on spaces lived in by individual characters, aiming to show that Wide Sargasso Sea’s Caribbean islands can be read as both dystopian spaces of resistance and creolotopian spaces of transformation. Counter to colonial utopian imaginary, the tropical islands in the novel are presented as an evil, ugly, and diseased world for both white colonizers and the colonized, yet they are simultaneously portrayed as a special Caribbean creolotopia formed through archipelagic thinking and the process of creolization, as embodied in the lived experiences of the black woman Christophine. By resisting the binarism of victim/victimizer and envisioning utopia and creolotopia in the same space, the novel subverts the binary thinking that dominates Western epistemology.
TL;DR: This article analyzed the real nature of the changes proposed in the legislative CEAS reforms and in the action plans and evaluated the desirability, viability, and achievability of these transformative changes in the future asylum system.
Abstract: The provision of high‐quality reception conditions and the effective inclusion of refugees are permanent challenges in the implementation of the European asylum agenda. The EU legal framework for the reception of refugees has evolved over time through various legislative reforms, notably including those launched in 2016 and the New Pact on Migration and Asylum proposed in 2020. The European Union has also tried to reinforce its non‐binding integration policy with the adoption of the Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion 2021–2027. While this plan is intended to promote an alternative “social resilient” integration model for refugees that emulates community sponsorship in Europe, it also generates great bottom‐up expectations to provide better integration. These legislative reform proposals and their programmatic framework are theoretically intended to consolidate the European reception and integration system, but in practice have increased the dichotomous tension between utopia and dystopia. Drawing on a political interpretation of both concepts, this article critically analyses the real nature of the changes proposed in the legislative CEAS reforms and in the action plans. Both visions are useful to evaluate the desirability, viability, and achievability of these transformative changes in the future asylum system.