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Title Yesterday's tomorrows : on utopia and dystopia / edited by Pere Gallardo and Elizabeth Russell
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014

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Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER I; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III; CHAPTER IV; CHAPTER V; PART II; CHAPTER VI; CHAPTER VII; CHAPTER VIII; CHAPTER IX; CHAPTER X; CHAPTER XI; PART III; CHAPTER XII; CHAPTER XIII; CHAPTER XIV; CHAPTER XV; CHAPTER XVI; CHAPTER XVII; CHAPTER XVIII; PART IV; CHAPTER XIX; CHAPTER XX; CHAPTER XXI; CHAPTER XXII; CHAPTER XXIII; CHAPTER XXIV; PART V; CHAPTER XXV; CHAPTER XXVI; CHAPTER XXVII; CHAPTER XXVIII; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Summary 2012 was a year of financial crises and ecological disasters, of endings and forebodings. The world did not end on December 21st as the Mayan calendar predicted, but became the stage for new beginnings, utopian communities, protest groups and solidarity movements. The essays in this book form an intertextual space for negotiating meaningful facts and fictions with an aim to understanding the present. Discussions focus on utopia and dystopia from literature and film, not only within the fram ..
Analysis UTOPIAS
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Utopias -- History
Dystopias -- History
Social forecasting, future studies.
Political control & freedoms.
Interdisciplinary studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Dystopias
Utopias
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Gallardo, Pere, editor.
Russell, Elizabeth, 1948- editor.
ISBN 9781443858779
1443858773
1306549663
9781306549660
9781443855884
144385588X