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The ecocidal imagination: dystopian fiction in an era of environmental crisis by Johnson, Hollie

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Angela carter’s heroes and villains: a dystopian romance by Zirange, Rajaram Sitaram

“…The present paper modestly attempts to study Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains (1969) as a dystopian romance in apocalyptic mode .It is an attempt to present how Angela Carter critically examines Rousseau’s Utopia of Noble Savage in Heroes and Villains. …”
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Dystopian cybernetic environment in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five by Babaee, Ruzbeh, Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam, Sivagurunathan, Shivani

“…In this study, I examine Slaughterhouse-Five in which the cybernetic system creates a dystopian society and reduces human beings into obedient robots. …”
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Body metamorphosis in dystopian cyber-capital of Don Delillos Cosmopolis by Babaee, Ruzbeh, Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam

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Staging the dark times: contemporary dystopian theatre in the UK 2000-2019 by De Simoni, Laura

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Variation of dystopian control systems in selected novels by Huxley, Vonnegut, and Delillo by Khorzughi, Ruzbeh Babaee

Subjects: “…Dystopian fiction, English - History and criticism…”
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The Hunger Games: linguistic modality as reflector of point of view in a dystopian novel by J. L. Christy, Jeyanthi Evelyn, Mohd Kasim, Zalina, Mohamad Ali, Afida, Ali Termizi, Arbaayah

“…Dystopian literature is a genre that imagines a futuristic universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are expressed. …”
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Freedom, coice and achieving self-realisation in the dystopian world of Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler by Rezaei, Zahra, Bahar, Ida Baizura, Abdullah Mohan, Zahraa

“…This study examines how the American science fiction author Octavia Butler (1947-2006) reflects the issue of how Olamina, the protagonist of Parable of the Talents (1998), attempts to establish a new religion, Earthseed, while changing her dystopian world. Butler is a distinguished novelist who brings to light the narrative on human life and challenges in a society where individuals are treated with discrimination and deprived of their rights, freedom, and independence, and takes a serious note of these topics by offering a representative portrait of the American society through her fiction. …”
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Spectral Bodies, Dystopian Cities: Literature and Economy in Portuguese-speaking Southern Africa, 1986-2012 by Waller, Thomas

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Where have all the mothers gone? Re-presenting the maternal and the mother–daughter relationship in dystopian fiction with young adult heroines by Foster, Sara

“…My PhD project investigates the complex presentation and absenting of mother characters in twenty-first-century dystopian fiction featuring purportedly empowered young adult heroines. …”
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Post-apocalyptic Dystopian Fiction: A Comparative Study Of Messianic Figures In Cormac Mccarthy’s The Road And Ahmad Sadaawi’s Frankenstein In Baghdad by Abedalqader, Rahma Mohammad Ahmad

“…This thesis investigates post-apocalyptic dystopian narratives that address the identification of a unique world messiah for humanity. …”
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Critical review on the idea of dystopia by Babaee, Ruzbeh, Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur, Zhang, Zhicheng, Zhang, Haiqing

“…Finally, we briefly reveal the standing of Aldous Huxley, Kurt Vonnegut, and Don DeLillo, among many other dystopian writers, in depiction of dystopian societies. …”
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Flipping tropes & subverting stereotype priming in the hunger games trilogy by Raihanah M. M., Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Adzura Elier

“…This is a review paper on the apparent force of commercial success and social media presence being a key in the changes of female representation in popular culture using The Hunger Games dystopian trilogy’s global commercial success and its impact as case in point. …”
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Readers and text worlds of dystopia by Hasan, Arwa

“…This thesis is an exploration of reading styles and stylistic patterning in relation to dystopian fiction. Situated within an empirical cognitive poetics, the study draws upon naturalistic reader-response data, with specific reference to Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Vonnegut’s ‘Harrison Bergeron’, as case studies of dystopian texts that produce a spectrum of readings. …”
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Body control in American cyberspace: a study on Don Delillo's White Noise by Babaee, Ruzbeh, Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam, Bahar, Ida Baizura

“…Don DeLillo’s White Noise (1984) is a cyberpunk narrative commenting on dystopia of late capitalism by illustrating the instability of the apparently safe and perfect life of a small town in North America. The dystopian society in white Noise is not a hierarchal world or a world in another time and space, as it is common in most dystopian narratives. …”
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Women marginalization and political corruption in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale by Al Ogaili, Thamer Amer Jubouri, Mani, Manimangai, Kaur, Hardev, Awang, Mohammad Ewan

“…On the other hand, the issue of political corruption will be explored to sustain the study‘s concern with novel‘s dystopian world. Accordingly, both women marginalization and political corruption will be elaborated as the dystopian peculiarities which contradict Atwood‘s style that seeks utopia society and a world that seems to be utterly corrupted. …”
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The consumer dystopia: Hegelian-Marxist thought and late-stage capitalism by Bayford, Katherine

“…To the extent that these traits and trends are found elsewhere, dystopian works retain relevance and power for readerships in times and places other than the author’s original land. …”
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Towards a nomadic utopianism: Gilles Deleuze and the good place that is no place by Bell, David Martin

“…I argue that this is a dystopian politics, and consequently that the state utopia is a dystopia. …”
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Temporal utopianism and global information networks by White, Andrew

“…But does this increasing temporal instability contain utopian possibilities as well as dystopian threat? This paper engages with ideas in contemporary sociology on the nature of time to identify its potential for utopian thinking and asks whether this can be realised through global information networks.…”
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ChatGPT Isn't Magic: The Hype and Hypocrisy of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Rhetoric by Leaver, Tama, Srdarov, Suzanne

“…This article explores how the hype around ChatGPT and generative AI was deployed across the first six months of 2023, and how these technologies were positioned as either utopian or dystopian, always seemingly magical, but never banal. …”
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