LEADER 04145aam 22006854 450 001 996248134003316 005 20240314181549.0 010 $a9780429497407$bebook 010 $a0429497407$bebook 010 $a9780429977039$bebook 010 $a0429977034$bebook 010 $a9781429486897 010 $a1429486899 024 7 $a2027/heb07710 035 $a(CKB)1000000000476337 035 $a(dli)HEB07710 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000071230 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11109925 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071230 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10090328 035 $a(PQKB)11368470 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5323329 035 $a(OCoLC)1091742911 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1091742911 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9780429497407 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000007183494 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000476337 100 $a20190212e20182000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aScraps of the untainted sky $escience fiction, utopia, dystopia /$fTom Moylan 210 1$aNew York, NY ;$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (xix, 386 pages) 225 1 $aCultural Studies Series 300 $aFirst published: Westview Press, 2000. 300 $aTitle from content provider. 311 0 $a0367098776 311 0 $a0813397685 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references, filmography and index. 327 $gpt. 1.$tScience fiction and utopia --$gpt. 2.$tDystopia --$gpt. 3.$tDystopian maneuvers. 330 2 $a"Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity through the buying and selling of everyday life provided fertile ground for this fictive underside of the utopian imagination. From the classical works by E.M. Forster, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, through the new maps of hell in postwar science fiction, and most recently in the dystopian turn of the 1980s and 1990s, this narrative machine has produced challenging cognitive maps of the given historical situation by way of imaginary societies which are even worse than those that lie outside their authors' and readers' doors. In Scraps of the Untainted Sky, Tom Moylan offers a thorough investigation of the history and aesthetics of dystopia. To situate his study, Moylan sets out the methodological paradigm that developed within the interdisciplinary fields of science fiction studies and utopian studies as they grow out of the oppositional political culture of the 1960 and 1970s (the context that produced the project of cultural studies itself). He then presents a thorough account of the textual structure and formal operations of the dystopian text. From there, he focuses on the new science-fictional dystopias that emerged in the context of the economic, political, and cultural convulsions of the 1980s and 1990s, and he examines in detail three of these new "critical dystopias:" Kim Stanley Robinson's The Gold Coast, Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower, and Marge Piercy's He, She, and It .With its detailed, documented, and yet accessible presentation, Scraps of the Untainted Sky will be of interest to established scholars as well as students and general readers who are seeking an in-depth introduction to this important area of cultural production."--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aCultural studies series. 517 3 $aScience fiction, utopia, dystopia 606 $aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDystopias in literature 606 $aUtopias in literature 615 0$aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDystopias in literature. 615 0$aUtopias in literature. 676 $a823/.0876209372 700 $aMoylan$b Tom$f1943-$0711030 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248134003316 996 $aScraps of the untainted sky$92417778 997 $aUNISA