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Dystopia
(redirected from anti-utopia)

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Dystopia
Eagerness (See ZEAL.)
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley’s grim picture of the future, where scientific and social developments have turned life into a tragic travesty. [Br. Lit.: Magill I, 79]
Erewhon
inhabitants worship superficiality, unreason, inconsistency, and evasion: a lampoon of 19th-century society. [Br. Lit.: Erewhon in Haydn & Fuller, 239]

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The author of an earlier work on George Orwell, Rodden was stimulated to undertake an investigation of the German Democratic Republic by his perceptions of the similarities between Orwell's anti-utopia in Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Communist political system that arose out of the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany after the Second World War.
Thus, what I am suggesting is the possibility that Schuyler, instead of creating a utopia in the Black Empire serials, wrote an anti-Utopia reminiscent of Black No More to once again expose the dangers of race chauvinism.
 
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