Atasoy, EmrahHoran, Thomas2021-06-252021-06-252021https://www.akbanksanat.com/content/distopyasergikatalogu_web.pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12695/1181When it comes to utopian literature (depictions of better places), anti-utopian literature (satirical critiques of someone else’s conception of a better place), and dystopian literature (depictions of bad places), the distinctions are almost entirely subjective (Horan, “Totalitarian” 54). William Morris, for instance, famously regarded Edward Bellamy’s sanguine Looking Backward (1888) as a dystopia, proposing a different socialist alternative to capitalism in News From Nowhere (1890), a novel that is therefore both utopian and anti-utopian, depending on your perspective.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess[Keywords Not Available]DYSTOPIA: MAPPING LITERARY LEGACIES AND HELLISH FUTURESArticle100105