TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: The Dystopian Imagination – An Overview
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ECKART VOIGTS 1.
Dystopia and Degeneration: H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1898)
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RICHARD NATE 2.
Biopolitical Dystopia: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)
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RONJA TRIPP 3.
Totalitarian Dystopia: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
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ECKART VOIGTS 4.
Anti-Humanist Dystopia: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
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RÜDIGER HEINZE 5.
Mechanistic Dystopia: E. M. Forster, “The Machine Stops” (1909) and Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano (1952)
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NILS WILKINSON AND ECKART VOIGTS 6.
Dystopian Violence: A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess 1962/ Stanley Kubrick 1971)
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RENATE BROSCH 7.
Dystopian Androids: Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and Ridley Scott, Blade Runner (1982)
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CHRISTOPH HOUSWITSCHKA 8.
Surrealist Dystopia: J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition (1970)
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RAIMUND BORGMEIER 9.
Feminist Utopia/Dystopia: Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975) and Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)
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JEANNE CORTIEL 10. Ambiguous Utopia: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974) RAIMUND BORGMEIER
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11. Postcolonial Dystopia: J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
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JAN WILM 12. Graphic Dystopia: Watchmen (Moore/Gibbons, 1986-1987) and V for Vendetta (Moore/Lloyd, 1982-1989)
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DIRK AND MARIE VANDERBEKE 13. Cyberpunk and Dystopia: William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)
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LARS SCHMEINK 14. Religious Dystopia: Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and its Film Adaptation (Schlöndorff/Pinter, 1990)
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KERSTIN SCHMIDT 15. Posthuman Dystopia/Critical Dystopia: Octavia E. Butler’s Parable Series (1993, 1998) and Xenogenesis Trilogy (1987-1989)
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SONJA GEORGI 16. Dystopia of Isolation: William Golding, Lord of the Flies (1954) and Alex Garland, The Beach (1996)
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VIRGINIA RICHTER 17. Eco-Dystopia and Biotechnology: Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013)
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DUNJA M. MOHR 18. Post-Nuclear Dystopia: Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker (1980)
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ULRICH HORSTMANN 19. Eugenics and Dystopia: Andrew Niccol, Gattaca (1997) and Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (2005)
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NICOLA GLAUBITZ 20. Dystopia of Reproduction: P. D. James, The Children of Men (1992) and Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men (2006)
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JOCHEN PETZOLD 21. Virtual Reality and Dystopia: Lana and Andy Wachowski, The Matrix and David Cronenberg, eXistenZ (1999) MONIKA PIETRZAK-FRANGER
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22. Postmodernism and Dystopia: David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (2004)
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OLIVER LINDNER 23. Post-Apocalyptic Dystopia: Cormac McCarthy, The Road (2006)
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JAN HOLLM 24. Dystopian Video Games: Fallout in Utopia
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SEBASTIAN DOMSCH 25. Young Adult Dystopia: Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games Trilogy (2008-2010) ECKART VOIGTS AND ALESSANDRA BOLLER
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