Información General

• Autores: Pere Gallardo Torrano (ed. lit.), Elizabeth Russell (ed. lit.)
• Editores: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Año de publicación: 2014
• País: Reino Unido
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9781443855884
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Resumen

• 2012 was a year of financial crises and ecological disasters, of endings and forebodings. The world did not end on December 21st as the Mayan calendar predicted, but became the stage for new beginnings, utopian communities, protest groups and solidarity movements. The essays in this book form an intertextual space for negotiating meaningful facts and fictions with an aim to understanding the present. Discussions focus on utopia and dystopia from literature and film, not only within the framework of science fiction but also critical theory, gender politics and social sciences.The authors of these essays are international academics whose interest lies in utopian studies and who attended the 13th International Conference of Utopian Studies, "The Shape of Things to Come", held in Tarragona, Spain, in 2012.

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Listado de artículos

• • Part I: Speculations on Elsewhere and Managing the Crisis

    • Stanislaw Lem's Futures and Futurology

      Kenneth Hanshew

      págs. 11-24

      

    • Gathering for the Millenium: Sacred Places and Utopian Visions

      Timothy Miller

      págs. 25-30

      

    • Laughing at the End of the World: Cat's Cradle and Galapagos

      Burcu Kayisci

      págs. 31-44

      

    • Intimations of Hope within Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Context

      Annette Magid

      págs. 45-58

      

    • The Flat Management of "Crises" on Our Spherical Planet: Anarchist Order for a Sustainable Future

      Diane Morgan

      págs. 59-74

      

  • Part II: Disturbing Utopias

    • Satirical Utopia, Utopia Satirised: Danny Boyle's The Beach

      Barbara Klonowska

      págs. 75-86

      

    • Hollywood's Neo-Marxist Approach: In Time, by Andrew Niccol

      Pere Gallardo

      págs. 87-98

      

    • "There's some things apocalypse can't change": Gender in Jericho

      Isabel Santaulària i Capdevila

      págs. 99-120

      

    • Dystopian Masculinities in Science Fiction

      Bill Phillips

      págs. 121-136

      

    • Cracks in the Feminist Nirvana: Reading David Brin's Anti-Patriarchal SF Novel Glory Season (1993) as a "Feminist" Woman

      Sara Martín Alegre

      págs. 137-152

      

    • Apocalypse Now: Illusion of lnclusion in Janusz A. Zajdel's Dystopian Novelty

      Krzysztof M. Maj

      págs. 153-170

      

  • Part III: Communication and Community Matters

    • The Midas Blessing: Turning Commodities into Gifts

      Bülent Somay

      págs. 171-184

      

    • Occupy and the Utopian Moment: Social Theory and the Challenge of Transformation

      James E. Block

      págs. 185-200

      

    • Occupy the World with Utopias

      Manuela Salau Brasil

      págs. 201-216

      

    • The Rise of Communitarianism and Other Altenative Movements from the Athenian Crises

      Nicholas Anastasopoulos

      págs. 217-226

      

    • Nothing to Fear but the Algorithm Itself: The Computer as Monster in Robert Harris' The Fear Index

      John Style

      págs. 227-240

      

    • Utopia as Hörspiel: Technology and Cultural Form

      Andrew Milner

      págs. 241-252

      

    • Rhetorical Beginnings of Dystopian Films

      Ludmila Gruszewska Blaim

      págs. 253-264

      

  • Part IV: Yesterday's Tomorrows

    • Memory and Wisdom: Approaches to the Elemental Possibility of Utopia

      José Eduardo Reis

      págs. 265-276

      

    • The Giver: Memory Erased, Death Marginalized, Freedom Forgotten

      Katarzyna Baran

      págs. 277-292

      

    • Don Quixote contra Faust: Ernst Bloch's Abstract or Concrete Utopia?

      Dharmender Dillon

      págs. 293-306

      

    • Haruki Murakami's IQ84: A Homage to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four?

      Elizabeth Russell

      págs. 307-322

      

    • Transforming the World: Doris Lessing's Alternative Futures

      Cristina Andreu

      págs. 323-332

      

    • Chapter XXIV. When China Rules the World Apocalyptic Visions of the Post-American Order in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad: A True Love Story

      Stankomir Nicieja

      págs. 333-344

      

  • Part V: Post Apocalypse

    • "All alone in an empty world": Post-Apocalyptic Robinsonades

      Susanna Layh

      págs. 345-356

      

    • In Search of Meaning after the End of the World: The Vision of the Post Apocalyptic America in Cormac McCarthy's The Road

      Michael L. Palmowski

      págs. 357-366

      

    • No Post-Apocalyptic Future: The Straw-Man Utopia of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood

      Petter Skult

      págs. 367-380

      

    • Science vs. Ecology: About the End of the World in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake

      Slawomir Kuznicki

      págs. 381-394