Epistemological Warfare and Hope in Critical Dystopia

Atasoy, Emrah

Epistemological Warfare and Hope in Critical Dystopia

dc.authorid	0000-0002-5008-2636
dc.contributor.author	Atasoy, Emrah
dc.date.accessioned	2021-06-14T07:10:24Z
dc.date.available	2021-06-14T07:10:24Z
dc.date.issued	2021	en_US
dc.department	Kapadokya Üniversitesi, Beşeri Bilimler Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü
dc.description.abstract	This book focuses on the transition from innocence and ignorance to experience and knowledge in dystopian fiction, revealing that truth and knowledge in Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night, Anthony Burgess’s The Wanting Seed, and P. D. James’s The Children of Men are fictional constructs. These critical dystopias show characters’ journeys from ignorance to experience as a process of epistemological warfare. The protagonists’ initial ignorance is shattered through various symbolic transformations, increasing the utopian undertone within these examples of critical dystopia. The open-ended structure of these texts reinforces the hope of the utopian impulses and of revisionary epistemologies that might lead to more just, meritocratic societies.
dc.identifier.citation	Atasoy, Emrah. Epistemological Warfare and Hope in Critical Dystopia. Ankara: Nobel, 2021.
dc.identifier.endpage	167	en_US
dc.identifier.startpage	1	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12695/1093
dc.institutionauthor	Atasoy, Emrah
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Nobel
dc.relation.ispartof	Epistemological Warfare and Hope in Critical Dystopia
dc.relation.publicationcategory	Kitap - Uluslararası
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess	en_US
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Dystopia
dc.subject	Hope
dc.subject	Epistemological warfare
dc.title	Epistemological Warfare and Hope in Critical Dystopia
dc.type	Book