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This book examines dystopian fiction's recent paradigm shift towards urban dystopias. It links the dystopian tradition with the literary history of the novel, spatio-philosophical concepts against the backdrop of the spatial turn, and systems-theory. Five dystopian novels are discussed in great detail: China Miéville's Perdido Street Station (2000) and The City & The City (2009), City of Bohane (2011) by Kevin Barry, John Berger's Lilac and Flag (1992), and Divided Kingdom (2005) by Rupert Thomson. The book includes chapters on the literary history of the dystopian tradition, the referential interplay of maps and literature, urban spaces in literature, borders and transgressions, and on systems-theory as a tool for charting dystopian fiction. The result is a detailed overview of how dystopian fiction constantly adapts to – and reflects on – the actual world.
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Subject Index
- actual world 1, 2, 3 f., 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10f., 11, 12, 13, 14f., 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21f.
- alterity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- anti-utopia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6f., 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
- appropriation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
- archaeology 1
- ascription 1, 2, 3f., 4, 5
- border 1, 2, 3f., 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 f., 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 f., 24, 25
- Brave New World 1f., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- cartography 1, 2, 3, 4, 5f., 6, 7, 8, 9
- collectivism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- conceived space 1, 2, 3, 4, 5f., 6, 7f., 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- constructedness 1, 2f., 3, 4, 5, 6
- contact zone 1 f., 2f., 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14f., 15
- contingency 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6f., 7
- cultural studies 1
- deictics 1, 2, 3
- differentiation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- discourse 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10f.
- discursivity 1, 2, 3, 4f., 5, 6, 7, 8f., 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17f., 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
- dominated space 1, 2
- dystopia 1, 2, 3, 4 f., 5f., 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12f.
- effect of realisation 1, 2, 3, 4
- etymology 1, 2, 3
- exclusion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- fantasy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5f., 6
- fiction 1, 2f., 3f., 4, 5, 6, 7, 8f., 9f., 10f., 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
- fictional world 1, 2f., 3, 4, 5, 6f., 7, 8f., 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
- fictionality 1f., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6f., 7, 8
- focalisation 1 f., 2, 3, 4, 5f., 6, 7f., 8, 9, 10, 11
- geography 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- habitus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- historicity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- humourism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8f., 9, 10, 11
- hybridity 1, 2, 3f., 4, 5
- identity 1, 2, 3, 4f., 5f., 6, 7, 8, 9f., 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 f., 15, 16, 17, 18 f., 19, 20f., 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
- ideology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- integration 1, 2, 3
- irrealism 1, 2f., 3, 4, 5f., 6, 7f., 8, 9, 10, 11
- literary history 1, 2, 3
- literary studies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- lived space 1, 2f., 3f., 4, 5f., 6, 7, 8f., 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
- lust 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10f., 11, 12
- map 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14f., 15f., 16, 17
- mappamundi 1
- marginalisation 1, 2
- materiality 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 118– 120, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 f., 17, 18, 19, 20f., 21, 22, 23, 24
- mediation 1, 2, 3, 4
- mimesis 1
- modernisation 1, 2, 3
- modernity 1f., 2, 3
- mythology 1f., 2, 3f., 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- narration 1, 2, 3, 4, 5f., 6, 7, 8, 9 f., 10, 11, 12
- narrator 1, 2f., 3, 4, 5, 6f., 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16f., 17f., 18, 19f., 20, 21, 22, 23
- Nineteen Eighty-Four 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7f., 8
- nostalgia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- observation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11f., 12f., 13
- observer 1, 2f., 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- omission 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- ontology 1
- outsider 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
- paratext 1
- perceived space 1, 2, 3 f., 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- performance 1, 2, 3f., 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16f., 17f., 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24f., 25
- philosophy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- power 1...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- I Introduction
- II From More to Miéville: the Dystopian Tradition
- III Literature and Maps, Maps and Literature
- IV Urban Spaces: Taking a Stroll
- V Against the Grain: Borders and Transgressions
- VI Systems Theory and the Fiction of Probable Reality
- VII Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Name Index
- Subject Index