Title: Dystopia
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
Subjects: Utopias in literature, Literature and society, History and criticism, Fiction, Science fiction, Dystopias in literature, Science fiction films, Fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Fiction, history and criticism, 21st century, Science fiction, history and criticism
Time periods: 20th century, 21st century