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Book Title

Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump: Images from Literature and Visual Arts

ORCID ID

0000-0002-4966-1251

Document Type

Book Chapter

ISBN

9781683931676

Publication Date

6-4-2019

Editors

Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan

Keywords

Donald J. Trump, dystopia, images, literature, utopia, visual arts

Description

Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place” to the psychotic world of Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, from science fiction and recent horror films, television adaptations of books such as Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, and new series such as Black Mirror to the repressive Hitlerian dystopia of Katherine Burdekin’s Swastika Night, the contributors examine the development of scenarios that either prefigure the rise of individuals such as Donald J. Trump or suggest alternatives to them. Ultimately, one might say of the worlds presented here, viewed from different social and political perspectives: one person’s utopia is another’s dystopia.

Publisher

University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

City

Lanham, MD

First Page

1

Last Page

6

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Social and Behavioral Sciences

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