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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Part I Altered States
The Man in the Klein Blue Suit: Searching for Agency in William Gibson’s Bigend Trilogy
The Cultural Logic of Post-Capitalism: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Popular Dystopia
Logical Gaps and Capitalism’s Seduction in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl
“The Dystopia of the Obsolete”: Lisa Robertson’s Vancouver and the Poetics of Nostalgia
Post-Frontier and Re-Definition of Space in Tropic of Orange
Our Posthuman Adolescence: Dystopia, Information Technologies, and the Construction of Subjectivity in M.T. Anderson’s Feed
Part II Plastic Subjectivities
Woman Gave Names to All the Animals: Food, Fauna, and Anorexia in Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Fiction
The End of Life as We Knew It: Material Nature and the American Family in Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Last Survivors Series
“The Treatment for Stirrings”: Dystopian Literature for Adolescents
Imagining Black Bodies in the Future
Brown Girl in the Ring as Urban Policy
Part III Spectral Histories
Archive Failure? Cielos de la tierra’s Historical Dystopia
Love, War, and Mal de Amores: Utopia and Dystopia in the Mexican Revolution
Culture of Control/Control of Culture: Anne Legault’s Récits de Médilhault
The Sublime Simulacrum: Vancouver in Douglas Coupland’s Geography of Apocalypse
Neoliberalism and Dystopia in U.S.–Mexico Borderlands Fiction
America and Books Are “Never Going to Die”: Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story as a New York Jewish “Ustopia”
In Pursuit of an Outside: Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers and the Crisis of the Unrepresentable
Homero Aridjis and Mexico’s Eco-Critical Dystopia
Part IV Emancipating Genres
Lost in Grand Central: Dystopia and Transgression in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
Which Way Is Hope? Dystopia into the (Mexican) Borgian Labyrinth
Dystopia Now: Examining the Rach(a)els in Automaton Biographies and Player One
The Romance of the Blazing World: Looking back from CanLit to SF
“It’s not power, it’s sex”: Jeanette Winterson’s The PowerBook and Nicole Brossard’s Baroque at Dawn
Another Novel Is Possible: Muckraking in Chris Bachelder’s U.S.! and Robert Newman’s The Fountain at the Center of the World
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