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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
ISBN-10
3319706748
ISBN-13
9783319706740
Edition
1st ed. 2018
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 23rd, 2018
Print length
212 Pages
Weight
428 grams
Dimensions
17.00 x 22.20 x 1.80 cms
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This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism.
This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin''s Swastika Night, George Orwell''s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood''s The Handmaid''s Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism. Taken together, these books delineate a subset of politically conscious speculative literature, which can be understood collectively as projected political fiction. While Thomas Horan addresses problematic aspects of this subgenre, particularly sexist and racist stereotypes, he also highlights how some of these texts locate social responsibility in queer and other non-heteronormative sexual relationships. In these novels, even when the illicit relationship itself is truncated, sexual desire fosters hope and community.
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