...Anne Charles © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice . By Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. x, 196 pp. Paper, $29.95. Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias . By Dunja...

... existence like the one predicted in Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1974 novel The Dispossessed . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 apocalypse dystopia survival In a critical scene in The Matrix , Cypher (Joe Pantoliano) journeys solo into the Matrix to meet secretly with Agent Smith (Hugo...

... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Asian American literature dystopia speculative fiction health comparative race theory After all is said and done build a new route to China if they’ll have you Who will survive in America? —Gil Scott-Heron, “Comment #1” ( 1970...

... in this book where I wanted to interject with a more intertextual approach. For instance, Mitchell’s citation of McCarthy’s reference in The Road (2006) to a man who appears “like an animal inside a skull looking out the eyeholes” (184) is surely a reference to Russell Hoban’s seminal dystopia, Riddley...

... loyalty to the United States; similarly ambiguous treatments of automatism in George Orwell, Ken Kesey, Ralph Ellison, and Betty Friedan; Silicon Valley techno-optimism; cyberpunk and posthuman dystopias; and even the Patty Hearst trial. The final chapter returns to the military-industrial-entertainment...

...), producing work that, in defiance of some of the science fiction standards of the time, avoided manifestos, dystopias, and easy answers. Subverting the conventions of time travel from a form of nostalgia, entertainment, or opportunity to speculate on history or free will, it becomes in her hands a device...

... was quickly ushered out of public view, 9/11 novelists experimented with time, abstraction, and scale in order to confront what Lee-Potter calls “fiction’s apparently diminishing capacity to adequately reflect the extreme dystopia of the new millennium” (31). What Lee-Potter finds lacking in early 9/11...

... holds incommensurable differences, or differences that are unassimilable into cultural normativity. Ugliness, which Howard tracks in an “underground” (9) archive that includes the “postpunk feminist dystopia” (26) of the 1982 cult film Liquid Sky as well as Roberta Gregory’s lesbian collection...

...: the empathy-inducing dystopias of George Saunders, for example, or Rachel Cusk’s nonmediated and narrative-dismantling fictions. The three texts under review here, however, complicate understandings of habits variously cast as irony, disavowal, and renunciation, suggesting that postmortems of the age of irony...

... writing of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Afrofuturism, queer film, and new media fan fiction. Lothian opens a can of speculative worms (the end of part 2 is titled “Wormhole”) with which she goes fishing not for utopias and dystopias yet to arrive but for visions of the future already...

..., cultural dystopias, and middle-­ class alienation has exposed a dominant facet of the literature, but it has also forestalled a more expansive treatment of suburban fiction as a discourse that operates within national and transnational geogra- phies. In other words, I want to argue that our...

..., 120 pp. Paper, $14.95. Reflecting on the imbricated history of utopias and dystopias, Sprague traces America’s metamorphosis from hoped-for Eden to dystopic modernity. The book is divided into three sections, close reading London’s The Iron Heel, Lew- is’s It Can’t Happen Here, and Roth’s...

.... of Alabama Press. 2006. x, 196 pp. Paper, $29.95. Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias. By Dunja M. Mohr. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2005. xi, 312 pp. Paper, $39.95. If the title of Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s collection sounds familiar, it is because...

.... of Alabama Press. 2006. x, 196 pp. Paper, $29.95. Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias. By Dunja M. Mohr. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2005. xi, 312 pp. Paper, $39.95. If the title of Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s collection sounds familiar, it is because...

.... of Alabama Press. 2006. x, 196 pp. Paper, $29.95. Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias. By Dunja M. Mohr. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2005. xi, 312 pp. Paper, $39.95. If the title of Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s collection sounds familiar, it is because...

.... of Alabama Press. 2006. x, 196 pp. Paper, $29.95. Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias. By Dunja M. Mohr. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2005. xi, 312 pp. Paper, $39.95. If the title of Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s collection sounds familiar, it is because...

... and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias. By Dunja M. Mohr. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2005. xi, 312 pp. Paper, $39.95. If the title of Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s collection sounds familiar, it is because it was originally published in 1990. Taking as an epigraph an excerpt from Wallace Stevens’s...

... and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias. By Dunja M. Mohr. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2005. xi, 312 pp. Paper, $39.95. If the title of Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s collection sounds familiar, it is because it was originally published in 1990. Taking as an epigraph an excerpt from Wallace Stevens’s...

... and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias. By Dunja M. Mohr. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2005. xi, 312 pp. Paper, $39.95. If the title of Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s collection sounds familiar, it is because it was originally published in 1990. Taking as an epigraph an excerpt from Wallace Stevens’s...

... and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias. By Dunja M. Mohr. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2005. xi, 312 pp. Paper, $39.95. If the title of Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s collection sounds familiar, it is because it was originally published in 1990. Taking as an epigraph an excerpt from Wallace Stevens’s...