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Martinez, Robert Lee, II.

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No future: The realist impulse in dystopian fictions in Britain, 1973--1987.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	No future: The realist impulse in dystopian fictions in Britain, 1973--1987./
Author:	Martinez, Robert Lee, II.
Description:	232 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-09, Section: A, page: 3283.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-09A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3418719
ISBN:	9781124172705

No future: The realist impulse in dystopian fictions in Britain, 1973--1987.
Martinez, Robert Lee, II.

No future: The realist impulse in dystopian fictions in Britain, 1973--1987. - 232 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-09, Section: A, page: 3283.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010.

In "No Future: The Realist Impulse in Dystopian Fictions in Britain, 1973-1987," I argue that the genre of dystopian literature becomes fertile ground for British and Commonwealth writers, musicians, and filmmakers to articulate the cultural, economic, and social problems in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s. By examining a variety of literary, musical, and cinematic texts, this project shows that while British artists find the traditional, science fiction-oriented dystopian genre an attractive lens through which to view British society, the structure is ultimately too limiting to address the socio-economic problems plaguing the country. In response to this limitation, these writers begin to import aspects of realism and postmodern culture into the dystopian genre in order to challenge the meaning and traditional framework of the dystopia and to reflect the new harsh realities facing contemporary Britain. I demonstrate that as these writers examine the dystopian features of British society, they discover the inadequacy of traditional satire and irony to critique acts of social and sexual violence, and instead gradually turn to representations and theories of trauma and diaspora as a way to recover character agency and to attempt to instill in their audience a political consciousness. Ultimately, this dissertation suggests that these new dystopian fictions of realism represent new forms of open-ended critique that seek to move discussions of dystopia from literary genre to the arena of public intellectual debates and political activism.

ISBN: 9781124172705Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

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