ContentsIndroduction: Dystopia and Histories Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan1. Utopia in Dark Times: Optimism/Pessimism and Utopia/Dystopia Ruth Levitas and Lucy Sargisson2. Genre Blending and the Critical Dystopia Jane Donawerth3. The Writing of Utopia and the Feminist Critial Dystopia: Suzy MKee Charnas' Holdfast Series Ildney Cavalcanti4. Cyberpunk and Dystopia: Pat Cadigan's Networks David Seed5. Posthuman Bodies and Agency in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Naomi Jacobs6. 'A useful knowledge of the present is rooted in the past': Memory and Historical Reconciliation in Ursula K. LeGuin's The Telling Raffaella Baccolini7. 'The moment is here...and it's important': State, Agency, and Dystopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Antarctica and Ursula K. LeGuin's The Telling Tom Moylan8. Unmasking the Real? Critique and Utopia in Recent SF Films Peter Fitting9. Where the Prospective Horizon is Omitted: Naturalism and Dystopia in Fight Club and Ghost Dog Phillip E. Wegner10. Theses on Dystopia and Anti-Utopia Darko Suvin11. Concrete Dystopia: Slavery and its Others Maria Varsam12. The Problem of the 'Flawed Utopia': A Note on the Costs of Eutopia Lyman Tower SargentConclusion: Critical Dystopia and Possibilities Raffaella Baccolini and Tom MoylanNotes on ContributorsIndex
Tom Moylan is Glucksman Professor of
Contemporary Writing at the University of Limerick. He is author of
Scraps ofthe Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia and
Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the UtopianImagination
(Routledge), and coeditor of Not Yet:Reconsidering Ernst Bloch.
Raffaella Baccolini is Associate Professor of
English at the University of Bologna.
"Dark Horizons is a stimulating and imaginative set of essays which
demonstrate the transgressive and polyvalent nature of contemporary
science-fiction dystopias. They precipitate us into the
twenty-first century with a sense of foreboding - but also of
hope." -- Barbara Goodwin, Professor of Politics, University of
East Anglia, Norwich
"Dark Horizons is a timely and highly significant book bound to
make readers reflect critically on what has happened to the utopian
hope of the 1960s. A collection of essays on Anglo-American science
fiction and film and the dystopian imagination superbly edited by
Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan, this volume sheds critical
light on the propensity of many writers, filmmakers, and critics to
depict dystopian views of the world during the dark times of the
1980s, 1990s, and the onset of the twenty-first century. Most of
the essayists are leading scholars of utopian studies, and they
cover a range of topics and works with perspicacity while carefully
delineating notions of the utopian, eutopian, and dystopian.
Altogether the essays constitute the first major attempt to come to
terms with contemporary dystopian literature and film and to
suggest alternative and critical readings that paradoxically reveal
the hope of pessimism and skepticism." -- Jack Zipes, University of
Minnesota
"Dark Horizons is a valuable resource in utopian and sf studies."
-- Graham J. Murphey, Science Fiction Studies
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