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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
M Keith Booker |
| ISBN: | 031329092X 9780313290923 |
| OCLC Number: | 29312461 |
| Description: | 197 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Utopia, dystopia, and social critique -- Zamyatin's We : anticipating Stalin -- Huxley's Brave new world : the early bourgeois dystopia -- Orwell's 1984 : the totalitarian dystopia after Stalin -- The bourgeois dystopia after World War II -- Postmodernism with a Russian accent : the contemporary communist dystopia -- Skepticism squared : Western postmodernist dystopias -- Postscript: Literature and dystopia |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 58 |
| Responsibility: | M. Keith Booker. |
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