Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction

Foreword Linda Hogan Introduction Greta Gaard, Simon C. Estok, and Serpil Oppermann Part I: Feminist Ecocritical Theory 1. Feminist Ecocriticism: A Posthumanist Direction in Ecocritical Trajectory Serpil Oppermann 2. Toxic Epiphanies: Dioxin, Power, and Gendered Bodies in Laura Conti's Narratives on Seveso Serenella I…

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams takes the reader into space to give a clear view of the consequences of urbanization with a humorous take on the intricate webs of bureaucracy. The parallelism between the protagonist Arthur Dent’s loss of his living space due to a council decision to demolish his…

The author posits that postmodern fictions can create environmental awareness, as they incorporate ecological issues in their narratives in a dialogic interaction with their textual strategies as well as disclose how the discursive constructions of nature shape and condition the human valuation and understanding of th…

ÖZET Distopik romanlar yazıldıkları dönemin, siyasal, teknolojik ve sosyal durumundan hareketle geliştirilmiş geleceğe yönelik kurgulardan oluşan eserlerdir.Genellikle çağdaş toplumun unsurlarını içeren ve bazı modern eğilimlerin sakıncalarına karşı uyarı niteliği taşır, modern toplumu bekleyen olumsuz geleceği veya d…

ÖZET Distopik romanlar yazıldıkları dönemin, siyasal, teknolojik ve sosyal durumundan hareketle geliştirilmiş geleceğe yönelik kurgulardan oluşan eserlerdir.Genellikle çağdaş toplumun unsurlarını içeren ve bazı modern eğilimlerin sakıncalarına karşı uyarı niteliği taşır, modern toplumu bekleyen olumsuz geleceği veya d…

• EJDER ÇELİK

Sinema ve mimarlığın varoluşuna ilişkin ortak unsur olan ‘mekân’ kavramının geleceğini konu alan bu çalışmanın amacı, distopik bilim kurgu sineması aracılığı ile mekân tasarımına ve mimarlığa ait kurguların ve öngörülerin araştırılmasıdır. Bu amaçtan hareketle bu çalışmada incelenen filmlerde özellikle teknolojik etki…

• BÜŞRA ÜNVER

This essay reads two contemporary Johannesburg vampire narratives, the film Eternity (2010) and the graphic novel Rebirth (2012), as part of a body of fiction that sees post-apartheid Johannesburg as a laboratory for new forms of life. While recent Johannesburg science fiction has imagined the emergence of new and mor…

Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2007) pictures a futuristic world in which every body is technologically, discursively, and materially constructed. First of all, The Stone Gods foregrounds the futuristic conceptualization of embodiment and posthuman gendered bodies in relation to biotechnology, biogenetics, and r…

• KERİM CAN YAZGÜNOĞLU

Abstract Since the fall of the apartheid regime, critical discourse on and popular imaginations of South Africa have focused with renewed intensity on the city of Johannesburg: its schizophrenic social organization, its fragmented geography, its “citadelization,” its “architecture of fear,” and its development within…

• TIMOTHY SEAN WRIGHT

During the first third of the 20th century, scientific advances in genetic research led to an alarm for the modern world and mankind. Under the coercion of artificial intelligence and sterilization programs sponsored by the state, cultural values have been deeply influenced. British author Kazuo Ishiguro, along with h…

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This essay reads two contemporary Johannesburg vampire narratives, the film Eternity (2010) and the graphic novel Rebirth (2012), as part of a body of fiction that sees post-apartheid Johannesburg as a laboratory for new forms of life. While recent Johannesburg science fiction has imagined the emergence of new and mor…

• TIMOTHY SEAN WRIGHT

Abstract Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2007) manifest an environmentalist awareness of the increasingly destructive power of human technologies while challenging the prevalent models we employ to think about the planet as well as its human and non…

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