What do literary dystopias reflect about the times? In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, contributors address this amorphous but pervasive genre, using diverse critical methodologies to examine how North America is conveyed or portrayed in a perceived age of crisis, accelerated uncertainty, and political volatility.
What do literary dystopias reflect about the times? In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, contributors address this amorphous but pervasive genre, using diverse critical methodologies to examine how North America is conveyed or portrayed in a perceived age of crisis, accelerated uncertainty, and political volatility.
Table of Contents Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature, edited by Brett Josef Grubisic, Gisèle M. Baxter, and Tara Lee Introduction Brett Josef Grubisic, Giséle M. Baxter, and Tara Lee PART I Altered States The Man in the Klein Blue Suit: Searching for Agency in William Gibson's Bigend Trilogy Janine Tobeck The Cultural Logic of Post-Capitalism: Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Popular Dystopia Carl F. l. Miller Logical Gaps and Capitalism's Seduction in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl Sharlee Reimer "The Dystopia of the Obsolete": Lisa Robertson's Vancouver and the Poetics of Nostalgia Paul Stephens Post-Frontier and Re-Definition of Space in Tropic of Orange Hande Tekdemir Our Posthuman Adolescence: Dystopia, Information Technologies, and the Construction of Subjectivity in M.T. Anderson's Feed Richard Gooding PART II Plastic Subjectivities Woman Gave Names to All the Animals: Food, Fauna, and Anorexia in Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Fiction Annette Lapointe The End of Life as We Knew It: Material Nature and the American Family in Susan Beth Pfeffer's Last Survivors Series Alexa Weik von Mossner "The Treatment for Stirrings": Dystopian Literature for Adolescents Joseph Campbell Imagining Black Bodies in the Future Gregory Hampton Brown Girl in the Ring as Urban Policy Sharon DeGraw PART III Spectral Histories Archive Failure? Cielos de la Tierra's Historical Dystopia Zac Zimmer Love, War, and Mal de Amores: Utopia and Dystopia in the Mexican Revolution María Odette Canivell Culture of Control/Control of Culture: Anne Legault's Récits de Médilhault Lee Skallerup Bessette The Sublime Simulacrum: Vancouver in Douglas Coupland's Geography of Apocalypse Robert McGill Neoliberalism and Dystopia in U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Fiction Lysa Rivera America and Books are "Never Going to Die": Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story as a New York Jewish "Ustopia" Marleen S. Barr In Pursuit of an Outside: Art Spiegelman's In The Shadow of No Towers and the Crisis of the Unrepresentable Thomas Stubblefield Homero Aridjis and Mexico's Eco-Critical Dystopia Adam Spires PART IV Emancipating Genres Lost in Grand Central: Dystopia and Transgression in Neil Gaiman's American Gods Robert Tally Which Way is Hope? Dystopia into the (Mexican) Borgian Labyrinth Luis Gómez Romero Dystopia Now: Examining the Rach(a)els in Automaton Biographies and Player One Kit Dobson The Romance of the Blazing World: Looking back from CanLit to SF Owen Percy "It's not power, it's sex": Jeanette Winterson's The PowerBook and Nicole Brossard's Baroque at Dawn Helene Staveley Another Novel is Possible: Muckraking in Chris Bachelder's U.S.! and Robert Newman's The Fountain at the Center of the World Lee Konstantinou About the Contributors
Table of Contents Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature, edited by Brett Josef Grubisic, Gisèle M. Baxter, and Tara Lee Introduction Brett Josef Grubisic, Giséle M. Baxter, and Tara Lee PART I Altered States The Man in the Klein Blue Suit: Searching for Agency in William Gibson's Bigend Trilogy Janine Tobeck The Cultural Logic of Post-Capitalism: Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Popular Dystopia Carl F. l. Miller Logical Gaps and Capitalism's Seduction in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl Sharlee Reimer "The Dystopia of the Obsolete": Lisa Robertson's Vancouver and the Poetics of Nostalgia Paul Stephens Post-Frontier and Re-Definition of Space in Tropic of Orange Hande Tekdemir Our Posthuman Adolescence: Dystopia, Information Technologies, and the Construction of Subjectivity in M.T. Anderson's Feed Richard Gooding PART II Plastic Subjectivities Woman Gave Names to All the Animals: Food, Fauna, and Anorexia in Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Fiction Annette Lapointe The End of Life as We Knew It: Material Nature and the American Family in Susan Beth Pfeffer's Last Survivors Series Alexa Weik von Mossner "The Treatment for Stirrings": Dystopian Literature for Adolescents Joseph Campbell Imagining Black Bodies in the Future Gregory Hampton Brown Girl in the Ring as Urban Policy Sharon DeGraw PART III Spectral Histories Archive Failure? Cielos de la Tierra's Historical Dystopia Zac Zimmer Love, War, and Mal de Amores: Utopia and Dystopia in the Mexican Revolution María Odette Canivell Culture of Control/Control of Culture: Anne Legault's Récits de Médilhault Lee Skallerup Bessette The Sublime Simulacrum: Vancouver in Douglas Coupland's Geography of Apocalypse Robert McGill Neoliberalism and Dystopia in U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Fiction Lysa Rivera America and Books are "Never Going to Die": Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story as a New York Jewish "Ustopia" Marleen S. Barr In Pursuit of an Outside: Art Spiegelman's In The Shadow of No Towers and the Crisis of the Unrepresentable Thomas Stubblefield Homero Aridjis and Mexico's Eco-Critical Dystopia Adam Spires PART IV Emancipating Genres Lost in Grand Central: Dystopia and Transgression in Neil Gaiman's American Gods Robert Tally Which Way is Hope? Dystopia into the (Mexican) Borgian Labyrinth Luis Gómez Romero Dystopia Now: Examining the Rach(a)els in Automaton Biographies and Player One Kit Dobson The Romance of the Blazing World: Looking back from CanLit to SF Owen Percy "It's not power, it's sex": Jeanette Winterson's The PowerBook and Nicole Brossard's Baroque at Dawn Helene Staveley Another Novel is Possible: Muckraking in Chris Bachelder's U.S.! and Robert Newman's The Fountain at the Center of the World Lee Konstantinou About the Contributors
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