Dystopias in Contemporary Literature

Dystopias in Contemporary Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Utopian and Anti-Utopian Logic: H. G. Wells and His Successors
  • Technology in the Dystopian Novel
  • The Obstacle: The Human Being, or the Twentieth Century in the Mirror of Dystopia
  • African Literature and the World System: Dystopian Fiction, Collective Experience, and the Postcolonial Condition
  • The Dystopian Imagination
• Criticism: Dystopian Views In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
  • Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Scheherazade in Dystopia
  • The Calculus of Love and Nightmare: The Handmaid's Tale and the Dystopian Tradition
  • The Handmaid's Tale as a Re-Visioning of 1984
• Criticism: Feminist Readings Of Dystopias
  • Woman as Temptress: The Way to (Br)Otherhood in Science Fiction Dystopias
  • The Turn from Utopia in Recent Feminist Fiction
  • Writing So to Speak: The Feminist Dystopia
• Further Reading