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Author : GARY. HOPPENSTAND
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781440865046
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
Download or read book DYSTOPIAN STATES OF AMERICA written by GARY. HOPPENSTAND and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew B. Hill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440873399
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Dystopian States of America written by Matthew B. Hill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dystopian States of America is a crucial resource that studies the impact of dystopian works on American society-including ways in which they reflect our deep and persistent fears about environmental calamities, authoritarian governments, invasive technologies, and human weakness. Dystopian States of America provides students and researchers with an illuminating resource for understanding the impact and relevance of dystopian and apocalyptic works in contemporary American culture. Through its wide survey of dystopian works in numerous forms and genres, the book encourages readers to connect with these works of fiction and understand how the catastrophically grim or disquieting worlds they portray offer insights into our own current situation. In addition to providing more than 150 encyclopedia articles on a large and representative sample of dystopian/apocalyptic narratives in fiction, film, television, and video games (including popular works that often escape critical inquiry), Dystopian States of America features a suite of critical essays on five themes-war, pandemics, totalitarianism, environmental calamity, and technological overreach-that serve as the foundation for most dystopian worlds of the imagination. These offerings complement one another, enabling readers to explore dystopian conceptions of America and the world from multiple perspectives and vantage points.
Author : JOHN A. DOWELL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781440868306
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (683 download)
Download or read book DYSTOPIAN STATES OF AMERICA written by JOHN A. DOWELL and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew B. Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Dystopian States of America written by Matthew B. Hill and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dystopian States of America is a crucial resource that studies the impact of dystopian works on American society-including ways in which they reflect our deep and persistent fears about environmental calamities, authoritarian governments, invasive technologies, and human weakness. Dystopian States of America provides students and researchers with an illuminating resource for understanding the impact and relevance of dystopian and apocalyptic works in contemporary American culture. Through its wide survey of dystopian works in numerous forms and genres, the book encourages readers to connect with these works of fiction and understand how the catastrophically grim or disquieting worlds they portray offer insights into our own current situation. In addition to providing more than 150 encyclopedia articles on a large and representative sample of dystopian/apocalyptic narratives in fiction, film, television, and video games (including popular works that often escape critical inquiry), Dystopian States of America features a suite of critical essays on five themes-war, pandemics, totalitarianism, environmental calamity, and technological overreach-that serve as the foundation for most dystopian worlds of the imagination. These offerings complement one another, enabling readers to explore dystopian conceptions of America and the world from multiple perspectives and vantage points.
Author : Matt Bechtal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949140194
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Dystopian States of America written by Matt Bechtal and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS IS NOT OUR FUTURE.This anthology features dystopian views of the future, for America and/or the entire world, should the current regime remain in power. Many of us have publicly stated that the reality we're currently living within is scarier and more surreal than anything any of us have ever dreamt up, so this anthology provided the chance to take that ball and run with it.All proceeds from The Dystopian States of America will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. The ACLU Foundation is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit corporation, donations to which fund the ACLU's litigation and public education efforts. As such, all contributing authors have donated their work to this anthology without payment.Thank you for your interest in, and support of, this anthology.
Author : Peter Marks
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030886549
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures written by Peter Marks and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures celebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old. Specially commissioned essays from established and emerging international scholars reflect the vibrancy of utopian vision, and its resiliency as idea, genre, and critical mode. Covering politics, environment, geography, body and mind, and social organization, the volume surveys current research and maps new areas of study. The chapters include investigations of anarchism, biopolitics, and postcolonialism and study film, art, and literature. Each essay considers central questions and key primary works, evaluates the most recent research, and outlines contemporary debates. Literatures of Africa, Australia, China, Latin America, and the Middle East are discussed in this global, cross-disciplinary, and comprehensive volume.
Author : Saskia Fürst
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643909314
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book US American Expressions of Utopian and Dystopian Visions written by Saskia Fürst and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection takes stock of current discourses in American studies on the political valence of American utopias, be they as religious diasporas or as socialist experiments, fantastic or realist, successful or failed. The included essays take into account the spatiality of utopias (especially in their visionary scope), analyze currents in literary utopias, and look at dystopian visions in literature. This volume strives to keep alive the long tradition of writers, artists, and scholars who warned against imminent disasters and envisioned ways to counter such ruinous bearings. (Series: American Studies in Austria, Vol. 17) [Subject: Sociology, Literary Studies]
Author : Veronica Roth
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0358470072
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (584 download)
Download or read book The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2021 written by Veronica Roth and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth. This year’s selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and by exchanging the ordinary for the avant-garde. Folktales and lore come alive, the dead rise, the depths of space are traversed, and magic threads itself through singular moments of love and loss, illuminating the circulatory nature of life, death, the in-between, and the hereafter. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 captures the all-too-real cataclysm of human nature, claiming its place in the series with compelling prose, lyrical composition, and curiosity’s never-ending pursuit of discovering the unknown.
Author : Jonathan Munoz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Mixed Reality written by Jonathan Munoz and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will America ever be safe from the ways of the dictators? In this dystopian future; an evil regime takes control of the government and takes the United States back into the 17th century? Will Jason Smith ever find out his real identity after being stolen from his family or will he chose to live out the remainder of his life not knowing his real identity? Only time will tell if this evil regime is destroyed and freedom and peace will ring out in North America once and for all.
Author : Ulrike Küchler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628921161
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Alien Imaginations written by Ulrike Küchler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As both an extra-terrestrial and a terrestrial migrant, the alien provides a critical framework to help us understand the interactions between cultures and to explore the transgressive force of travel over geographical, cultural or linguistic borders. Offering a perspective on the alien that connects to scholarship on immigration and globalization, Alien Imaginations brings together canonical and contemporary works in the literature and cinema of science fiction and transnationalism. By examining the role of the alien through the themes of language, anxiety and identity, the essays in this collection engage with authors such as H.G. Wells, Eleanor Arnason, Philip K. Dick and Yoko Tawada as well as directors such as Neill Blomkamp, James Cameron and Michael Winterbottom. Focusing on works that are European and North American in origin, the readings in this volume explore their critical intent and their potential to undermine many of the central notions of Western hegemonic discourses. Alien Imaginations reflects upon contemporary cultural imaginaries as well as the realities of migration, labor and life, suggesting models of resistance, if not utopian horizons.
Author : Randy Attwood
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781478308591
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Rabbletown: Life in These United Christian States of Holy America written by Randy Attwood and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2084. The place is Topeka, Kansas. The Church of the Evangels runs the country through the Pastor President, pastor governors and pastor legislators. They rule with a Bible in each fist and the computer in your hovel. This dystopia presents a view of what life would be like under the control of right wing evangelical Christians. Work on the new state cathedral in Topeka provides the economic stimulus for that region. When religion rules, society enters a new dark ages, but still operating are the computer-based social networking systems the Church of the Evangels use to spy on its members. Abortion is just outlawed, pregnancy is mandated. And if you don't fit into the society of the Church of the Evangels, you try to make a life in Rabbletown. And then the son of a mason reminds everyone what redemption is all about. Oh, and don't miss Friday stonings in Fred Phelps Plaza. Oh, and don't miss Friday stonings in Fred Phelps Plaza.
Author : John Galt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988898073
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)
Download or read book A Perfect America written by John Galt and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phil Tarsus is a dreadful instrument of State justice. He's an Inquisitor, a man who makes a living rooting out and executing those people who have been charged with treason. Guilt or innocence mean little to him--he has quotas to fill after all. Yet when he unwittingly stumbles upon a secret involving someone high up in the new American government, he becomes a target himself. Unfortunately for Phil, there's nowhere to run that the government can't find him. In the year 2122, in the perfect state of America, the government owns everything...from the shoes you wear, to the apple you eat, to your next door neighbor. The government owns everything and is everything. Under these conditions Phil can trust no one but the man he's slated to murder next.
Author : Aaron S. Rosenfeld
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000173194
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Character and Dystopia written by Aaron S. Rosenfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first extended study to specifically focus on character in dystopia. Through the lens of the "last man" figure, Character and Dystopia: The Last Men examines character development in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Nathanael West’s A Cool Million, David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Michel Houellebecq’s Submission, Chan Koonchung’s The Fat Years, and Maggie Shen King’s An Excess Male, showing how in the 20th and 21st centuries dystopian nostalgia shades into reactionary humanism, a last stand mounted in defense of forms of subjectivity no longer supported by modernity. Unlike most work on dystopia that emphasizes dystopia’s politics, this book’s approach grows out of questions of poetics: What are the formal structures by which dystopian character is constructed? How do dystopian characters operate differently than other characters, within texts and upon the reader? What is the relation between this character and other forms of literary character, such as are found in romantic and modernist texts? By reading character as crucial to the dystopian project, the book makes a case for dystopia as a sensitive register of modern anxieties about subjectivity and its portrayal in literary works.
Author : John Ames Mitchell
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019397299
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (972 download)
Download or read book The Last American written by John Ames Mitchell and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This science fiction novel tells the story of a man who wakes up 500 years in the future to find that America has been destroyed and he is the last man alive. The book explores themes of technology, environmentalism, and the struggle for survival. If you are a fan of dystopian fiction, or just looking for a thought-provoking read, this book is for you. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Tanjlisa Marie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781645845539
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (455 download)
Download or read book CEO of the USA written by Tanjlisa Marie and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a world where the president of the United States adopts a racist, divisive insane agenda, bringing the country to the brink of a second civil war and leaving America vulnerable and wanting anyone but him as their next leader. CEO of the USA explores this dark alternate reality where thirty years in the future, citizens are no longer free. blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities have fled the country. The government controls all. The person wielding this power is not subjected to the Constitution. The Constitution is for presidents. America now has a CEO. A resistance group, the Strikers, infiltrates the government and tries to restore the country back to her twentieth-century semiglory. In this dystopian depiction of an unimaginable America, there's a battle for the country, and the enemy isn't foreign. The enemy is the enemy. Warning: Not for those with delicate sensibilities. Contains sex, violence, ninjas, and sexbots.
Author : Jack London
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3583 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Dystopia Boxed Set: 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition written by Jack London and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-26 with total page 3583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of "DYSTOPIA Boxed Set: 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: 1984 (George Orwell) Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) It Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis) That Hideous Strength (C. S. Lewis) Iron Heel (Jack London) We (Yevgeny Zamyatin) Meccania the Super-State (Owen Gregory) Lord of the World (Hugh Benson) When The Sleeper Wakes (H. G. Wells) The Time Machine (H. G. Wells) The First Men in the Moon (H. G. Wells) Caesar's Column (Ignatius Donnelly) The Secret of the League (Ernest Bramah) City of Endless Night (Milo Hastings) Looking Further Backward (Arthur Dudley Vinton) The Heads of Cerberus (Francis Stevens) The Fixed Period (Anthony Trollope) Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501375865
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Fiction of Dread written by Robert T. Tally Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread. At the dawn of the 20th century, a wide-ranging utopianism dominated popular and intellectual cultures throughout Europe and America. However, in the aftermathof the World Wars, with such canonical examples as Brave New World and Nineteen-Eighty-Four, dystopia emerged as a dominant genre, in literature and in social thought. The continuing presence and eventual dominance of dystopian themes in popular culture-e.g., dismal authoritarian future states, sinister global conspiracies, post-apocalyptic landscapes, a proliferation of horrific monsters, and end-of-the-world fantasies-have confirmed the degree to which the 21st is also a dystopian century. Drawing on literature as varied as H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, and Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games, and on TV and film such as The Walking Dead, Black Mirror, and The Last of Us, Robert T. Tally Jr. explores the landscape of angst created by the monstrous accumulation of dystopian material. The Fiction of Dread provides an innovative reading of contemporary culture and offers an alternative vision for critical theory and practice at a moment when, as has been famously observed, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
