Overview
- Offers an insightful history of utopian and dystopian literature that leads to a new taxonomy of dystopian fiction
- Integrates the new notions of transgressive and immanent dystopia within the conceptual schemas of Deleuze and Guattari
- Provides a nuanced and perceptive reading of contemporary dystopian literature
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Front Matter
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This book offers an insightful history of dystopian literature, integrating it within the conceptual schemas of Deleuze and Guattari. Unlike earlier examples of dystopia which depict representations of a possible future that is remarkably worse than present society, contemporary dystopia often tends to portray an almost allegorical re-presentation of present society. Tracing dystopia’s shift from transcendence towards immanence with the rise of late neoliberal capitalism and control-societies, Çokay Nebioğlu skilfully constructs a new taxonomy of dystopian fiction to address this changing dynamic.
Accompanied by a subtle exploration of earlier and later examples of the genre by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Suzanne Collins, Veronica Roth, William Gibson, Max Barry, Dave Eggers, Cindy Pon, and Tahsin Yücel along with rich and nuanced analysis of China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station and Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, the book seeks not only to track the transformation of dystopia in light of worldwide cultural, political and economic transformation, but also to conduct a schizoanalytic reading of dystopia, thus opening up an exciting field of enquiry for Deleuzian scholars.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Dystopia
Authors: Rahime Çokay Nebioğlu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43145-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43144-0Published: 20 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43147-1Published: 21 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43145-7Published: 19 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 201
Topics: Aesthetics, Continental Philosophy, Poststructuralism, Contemporary Literature