Global Dystopias

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-946511-04-1
Verlag: Haymarket Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 208 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 261 mm, Gewicht: 429 g

Reihe: Boston Review / Forum

Stories, essays, and interviews explore dystopias that may offer lessons for the present.As the recent success of Margaret Atwood's novel-turned-television hit Handmaid's Tale shows us, dystopia is more than minatory fantasy; it offers a critical lens upon the present. “It is not only a kind of vocabulary and idiom,” says bestselling author and volume editor Junot Diaz. “It is a useful arena in which to begin to think about who we are becoming.”Bringing together some of the most prominent writers of science fiction and introducing fresh talent, this collection of stories, essays, and interviews explores global dystopias in apocalyptic landscapes and tech futures, in robot sentience and forever war. Global Dystopias engages the familiar horrors of George Orwell's 1984 alongside new work by China Miéville, Tananarive Due, and Maria Dahvana Headley. In “Don't Press Charges, and I Won't Sue,” award-winning writer Charlie Jane Anders uses popularized stigmas toward transgender people to create a not-so-distant future in which conversion therapy is not only normalized, but funded by the government. Henry Farrell surveys the work of dystopian forebear Philip K. Dick and argues that distinctions between the present and the possible future aren't always that clear. Contributors also include Margaret Atwood and award-winning speculative writer, Nalo Hopkinson.In the era of Trump, resurgent populism, and climate denial, this collection poses vital questions about politics and civic responsibility and subjectivity itself. If we have, as Díaz says, reached peak dystopia, then Global Dystopias might just be the handbook we need to survive it.Contributors
Charlie Jane Anders, Margaret Atwood, Adrienne Bernhard, Mark Bould, Thea Costantino, Tananarive Due, Henry Farrell, JR Fenn, Maria Dahvana Headley, Nalo Hopkinson, Mike McClelland, Maureen McHugh, China Miéville, Jordy Rosenberg, Peter Ross, Sumudu Samarwickrama

Autoren/Hrsg.

Diaz, Junot

Díaz, Junot

Weitere Mitwirkende

Díaz, Junot

Bernhard, Adrienne

Samarawickrama, Sumudu

Anders, Charlie Jane

Costantino, Thea

Rosenberg, Jordy

Headley, Maria Dahvana

Fenn, JR

Due, Tananarive

McClelland, Mike

McHugh, Maureen

Hopkinson, Nalo

Atwood, Margaret

Ross, Peter

Farrell, Henry

Miéville, China

Bould, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Über Autor(innen)

Díaz, Junot
Junot Díaz is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the short story collections Drown and This Is How You Lose Her. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Story, and Best American Short Stories. Associate Professor in the Writing and Humanistic Studies Program at MIT, he is fiction editor of Boston Review.

Díaz, Junot
Junot Díaz is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the short story collections Drown and This Is How You Lose Her. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Story, and Best American Short Stories. Associate Professor in the Writing and Humanistic Studies Program at MIT, he is fiction editor of Boston Review.