By Raphael Zähringer

This e-book examines dystopian fiction’s fresh paradigm shift in the direction of city dystopias. It hyperlinks the dystopian culture with the literary historical past of the radical, spatio-philosophical innovations opposed to the backdrop of the spatial turn, and systems-theory. 5 dystopian novels are mentioned in nice aspect: China Miéville’s Perdido highway Station (2000) and The urban & The City (2009), City of Bohane (2011) through Kevin Barry, John Berger’s Lilac and Flag (1992), and Divided Kingdom (2005) by way of Rupert Thomson. The booklet comprises chapters at the literary background of the dystopian culture, the referential interaction of maps and literature, city areas in literature, borders and transgressions, and on systems-theory as a device for charting dystopian fiction. the result's a close evaluate of ways dystopian fiction consistently adapts to – and displays on – the particular international.

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