Blast, corrupt, dismantle, erase : contemporary North American dystopian literature / Brett Josef Grubisic, Gisèle M. Baxter, and Tara Lee, editors.

In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, twenty-five contributors investigate how dystopian fiction reflects twenty-first century reality, using diverse critical methodologies to examine how North America is portrayed in a perceived age of crisis, accelerated uncertainty, and political volatility. Drawi...

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Other Authors: Baxter, Gisèle Marie (Editor), Grubisic, Brett Josef (Editor), Lee, Tara, 1977- (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2014]
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Altered states -- Plastic subjectivities -- Spectral histories -- Emancipating genres. 
520 |a In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, twenty-five contributors investigate how dystopian fiction reflects twenty-first century reality, using diverse critical methodologies to examine how North America is portrayed in a perceived age of crisis, accelerated uncertainty, and political volatility. Drawing from contemporary novels such as Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, and the work of Margaret Atwood, William Gibson, and many others, this book examines dystopian literature produced by North American authors between the signing of NAFTA (1994) and the tenth anniversary of 9/11 (2011). As the texts illustrate, awareness of and deep concern about perceived vulnerabilities--ends of water, oil, food, capitalism, empires, stable climates, ways of life, non-human species, and entire human civilizations--have become central to public discourse over the same period. By asking questions like "What are the distinctive qualities of post-NAFTA North American dystopian literature?" and "What does this literature reflect about the tensions and contradictions of the inchoate continental community of North America?" Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase resituates dystopian writing within a particular geo-social setting and introduces a productive means to understand both North American dystopian writing and its relevant engagements with a restricted, mapped reality. 
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700 1 |a Grubisic, Brett Josef,  |e editor. 
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