Revisiting Fantastic Dystopias
Revisiting Fantastic Dystopias

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses a series of theoretical perspectives on dystopian spaces and narrations that helps to understand the internal and external stimuli conducive to of the emergence of a type of fiction that illustrates scenarios that are anything but optimistic. Unlike in utopian narratives, here, society and man are subjected, through oppressive mechanisms, to an irreversible process of alienation and even dissolution. The transfer of the concept of dystopia to fantastic literature meets certain terminological obstacles, sprung precisely from the definition of dystopia and from the reception of fantastic literature, compared to that of science fiction.

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