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Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
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This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian
fiction, including Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night, George
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's
Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate
empathy and morality in eroticism. Taken together, these books
delineate a subset of politically conscious speculative literature,
which can be understood collectively as projected political
fiction. While Thomas Horan addresses problematic aspects of this
subgenre, particularly sexist and racist stereotypes, he also
highlights how some of these texts locate social responsibility in
queer and other non-heteronormative sexual relationships. In these
novels, even when the illicit relationship itself is truncated,
sexual desire fosters hope and community.
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