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American Nightmares - Dystopia in Twenty-First-Century US Fiction (Paperback, New edition)
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American Nightmares - Dystopia in Twenty-First-Century US Fiction (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Ralahine Utopian Studies, 25
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"Valentina Romanzi's study is a welcome addition to the body of
scholarship on dystopia, utopia science fiction, and speculative
fiction. It provides a comprehensive and updated review of the
complex and rich debate on the question of genres and subgenres,
while at the same time offering a fresh perspective. Eloquent and
very well written, this volume reveals America's fascination with
catastrophic future scenarios, including the post-apocalyptic,
delving into the issues that surround critical dystopia, progress,
hope and fear. The close readings offer lucid, insightful
interpretations of texts that range from SF literary ancestor, Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood's award winning The
Testaments, sequel to the acclaimed The Handmaid's Tale." (Eleonora
Rao, Universita degli Studi di Salerno) This volume investigates
dystopia in twenty-first-century US fiction. Using a methodological
framework based on sociology, it theorizes a correlation between
the crisis of the Frontier myth and of American exceptionalism and
a renewed interest in dystopian worlds. Part One illustrates the
methodological framework, exploring the concept of dystopia,
offering an overview of the American myths and of their current
status and spotlighting some relevant sociological theories. Part
Two applies the proposed methodological framework to four texts,
investigating the sub-genres of political, technological and
environmental dystopia. The primary works, chosen to show both the
relevance of the abovementioned American myths to dystopian
narratives and the pervasiveness of the genre across the media, are
Margaret Atwood's The Testaments (2019), Dave Eggers's The Circle
(2013), David Cage's video game Detroit: Become Human (2018), and
the Hughes Brothers' 2010 movie The Book of Eli.
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