The age of dystopia : one genre, our fears and our future /: one genre, our fears and our future. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Louisa MacKay Demerjian.
• Editors: Demerjian, Louisa MacKay
• Contents: Introduction / Louisa MacKay Demerjian -- Dystopia and the Promethean nightmare / Riven Barton -- 'The people in the chaos cannot learn' : dystopian vision in Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy / Patricia Stapleton -- Victims of global capitalism in Margaret Atwood's dystopian imaginary / Terra Walston Joseph -- Post-apocalypse, post-human : some recent dystopias / Karen F. Stein -- Dystopian drama : imagining science without limitations / Jeanne Tiehen -- Narrating trauma : the value of violence in YA dystopian fiction / Laura Poladian -- Who are you when no one's watching? : The hunger games, surveillance and the search for self / Molly Brost -- The hunger games in the arena of dystopian literacy / Nicole du Plessis -- What makes a young adult dystopian hero? / Louisa MacKay Demerjian -- 'Last girl alive' : Kirsty Murray's dystopian YA novel Vulture's gate / Charlotte Beyer.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (180 pages)
• Subjects: 809.9; Dystopias in literature; Dystopian films -- History and criticism; Dystopian films; Dystopias in literature; Anti-Utopie; Film; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443889759
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