Dystopia
By: editor M. Keith Booker
Series: Critical insights
Publisher: Salem Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ipswich, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781429837330; 9781429837811
Subjects: Utopias in literature; Science fiction; Dystopias in literature; Science fiction films; Literature and society; History and criticism; Fiction
Description: "To be dystopian, a work needs to foreground the oppressive society in which it is set, using that setting as an opportunity to comment in a critical way on some other society, typically that of the author and/or the audience. In other worlds, the bleak dystopian world should encourage the reader or viewer to think critically about it, then to transfer this critical thinking to his or her own world. This volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the perennial theme"--from publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.