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Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction

Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction

Horan, Thomas

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Series: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3319889788
ISBN13: 9783319889788
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 8 2019
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism. Taken together, these books delineate a subset of politically conscious speculative literature, which can be understood collectively as projected political fiction. While Thomas Horan addresses problematic aspects of this subgenre, particularly sexist and racist stereotypes, he also highlights how some of these texts locate social responsibility in queer and other non-heteronormative sexual relationships. In these novels, even when the illicit relationship itself is truncated, sexual desire fosters hope and community.

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