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The Zone of Dystopia
The Zone of Dystopia // 2011 RHSS: The Zone and Zones – Radical Spatiality in Our Times
Zadar: Sveučilište u Zadru, 2011. str. 22-22 (predavanje, međunarodna recenzija, sažetak, znanstveni)
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Naslov
The Zone of Dystopia
Autori
Božić, Rafaela
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni
Izvornik
2011 RHSS: The Zone and Zones – Radical Spatiality in Our Times
/ - Zadar : Sveučilište u Zadru, 2011, 22-22
Skup
RE-THINKING HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2011 The Zone and Zones - Radical Spatiality in Our Times
Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 1. – 4.09. 2011
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija
Ključne riječi
dystopian novel, zone, utopia, Sorokin, Platonov
(dystopian novel, zone, utopia, Sorokin, Platonov.)
Sažetak
The most famous dystopian novels of the early 20th century such as Zamyatin’s We or Orwell’s 1984 put dystopian societies in politically ordered zones (Edinoe Gosudarstvo, Oceania) with strict borders and the opposition between the order (although dystopian) in the zone and anarchy/freedom outside the zone. Many of dystopian novels follow such a concept (Huxley’s Brave New World, Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, or Tatyana Tolstaya’s Kys), or relate to it in a different way (W. Golding’s Lord of the Flies is built on the opposition to this concept). But contemporary Russian postmodern writer Vladimir Sorokin in his dystopian novel Blue Lard shows a completely different concept of the zone. In his novel there are several zones placed in different spaces and time lines, but all of them in a relation to each other. Ironic detachment to the genre results in the complex and powerful text. Between these two concepts we can place Platonov’s novel Chevengur (1928) in which Platonov offers an interesting concept of zoning in one time line and with no connection between the zones (the only element connecting them are the characters). In one of the existing zones there is utopia. The name of this zone is Chevengur. In the paper we analyze the concept of the zone in dystopian novels from the linguistic point of view, i.e. we analyze the lexis related to the zone(s) in order to find out more about the artistic concept of chosen dystopian writers.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Filologija
